Vice President JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" has been criticized by many who feel it is an inaccurate portrayal of ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Somewhere between an elegy and an anthem ... trying to find the right balance between abstract poetry and narrative storytelling, without leaning too heavily on aspects that will bring some ...

With a handsome actor like Joel Edgerton, audiences typically find themselves looking at his face, or those ice-blue movie-star eyes. But in “Train Dreams,” I found myself looking at his hands, great ...

Chad Montrie, a history professor, highlights the labor roots of environmentalism in the US, explaining how ecological ...

For example: The second argument is the higher-purpose argument ... I’d suggest starting with What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia.” Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place by bell hooks. “In this ...

Haidar Ghazali, a 20-year-old poet from Gaza, observes a city where war lingers - not in bombs, but in what it leaves behind.