If only more history lessons were as suffused with passion as “The Secret Letter,” the latest concert program from the ...

including the Walt Whitman Award-wining Science and Other Poems, The Edges of the Civilized World, and most recently, The Gift of Animals: Stories of Love, Loss, and Connection. She has also been a ...

On Friday, June 13, 2025, vocal ensemble New York Polyphony will release its tenth commercial album, Sky of My Heart. The ensemble incorporates New York Polyphony commissions and collaborations along ...

The “translations” of Rumi that make it to the best-seller list are by various Americans, among them a gentleman called ...

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to ...

It seemed to closely resemble other waltzes and slow pieces of its type, and at the beginning, one could also almost hear the melody from “From Russia With Love,” a James Bond film ...

Seven centuries ago, in the very first great work which we can read as English … a 17,000-line poem … the very third word is ...

“What I love about doing this work ... “I can walk down any given street and know, oh, this is where Walt Whitman once worked. This is where Zora Neale Hurston rented rooms.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When you think of Washington, DC, the city’s literary scene does not immediately spring to mind. “The ...

On Long Island, one of the most famous bird enthusiasts of the past — even though we might not think of him as a “birder” per se — is the poet Walt Whitman, who was born in Huntington and ...