He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

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God Bless the Child.” “I’ll Be Seeing You.” And of course, “Strange Fruit.” Ten writers and musicians share what they love ...

Kiya Vance is Corpus Christi's poet laureate. He is the sixth person and the first Black person to hold the title.

British docmaker Eleanor Mortimer joins a team of marine biologists on a remote oceanic exploration in her transporting, whimsical but ultimately melancholic first feature. Having premiered at the ...

The son of an English teacher and a jazz musician, Rich Follett has a deep appreciation for the written word, particularly ...

British director Eleanor Mortimer informs us in the course of her documentary “How Deep Is Your Love.” It’s a statistic somehow comforting in its vagueness — how, after all, can we put an ...

Instead of weaving words of praise or appreciation, she approaches him with a voice forged in pain, unheard, unnoticed. What makes this poem a memorable and celebrated piece, is the fact that it is ...

These poems are a heartfelt declaration of love, perfect for expressing the purest and deepest feelings. Share them with that ...

But the poetry is not limited to the protagonist’s words, which appear as intertitles throughout the film; it is also there in the images captured of him, his family, classmates and his small ...