There isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, No matter where it’s going.” That dandy epigraph, from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem ...

World Poetry Day came and went without much of a fanfare. March 21 was held in awe by many as the first (or second) day of spring leaving poetry to ...

A diverse group of French, Israeli and Palestinian actors perform in Yiddish in Amos Gitai's contemporary staging ...

Living during the early to mid-20th century, Simone Weil, a French philosopher, activist, and writer, was a religious mystic.

Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...