Poetry and Poets

April 18, 2022

Searching for the Notorious Celebrity Book Stylist

YIGIT TURHAN, THE Milan-based director of branding and entertainment relations at Valentino, was in Los Angeles last year when he first heard about the infamous book […]
February 11, 2022

The Lesbian Writer and Her Flamboyant Gay Husband

Peter taught me to laugh at fate as we lived our dream. At least for a while. Peter and I hitched our wagons young. Early 20s. […]
December 29, 2021

A Story of Love and Obsession

The Harlem house had been empty for eight years when in 2010 James Fenton, the British poet, and Darryl Pinckney, the African American cultural critic and […]
December 14, 2021

Tiny Love Stories: ‘A Child I’ll Never Meet’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Poem in My Pocket Walking home, I stopped before a poet for […]
January 27, 2021

Amanda Gorman to IMG, Super Bowl

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Amanda Gorman, Poet, Gets Modeling Agent and a Stage at the Super Bowl […]
November 22, 2020

Things To Do At Home

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. […]
November 15, 2020

Things To Do At Home

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. […]
June 7, 2020

How to Write Found Poetry

These days, people are turning to art or poetry while stuck at home, because they want to feel something other than being at home. One way […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Caring for Others

ImageCredit…Illustration by Andrew Sondern/The New York Times The Joy of Caring for Others By It started with a mask. May 18, 2020 A month or so […]
April 28, 2020

How to Defend a Dissertation Virtually

Clint Smith, a writer, teacher and poet, dreamed for more than six years of the moment he would defend his dissertation. But instead of standing in […]