poetry

A brother and sister find solace in William Butler Yeats’ Lake Isle of Innisfree.

Twenty-four years after arriving in the U.S., a young Vietnamese-American poet returned to Saigon with his father. Quang Bao reflects on how the visit forced him to redefine his notion of home.

The beat musician David Amram tells us how the Beats influenced the way we live and talk today.

Kurt Andersen talks with actor, director, and playwright SimonMcBurney, director and star of the current play Mnemonic, about the intimate connections between art and memory in theater, architecture, poetry, and music. McBurney is the artistic director and co-founder of the London-based Theatre de Complicite. Over the last several years he and members of theater company […]

The poet Lucille Clifton communicates the richness and complexity of memories, both personal and public.