Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I arrived at the Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture in Weed, California, the wrong way. As I drove up the dirt ...

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written ...

In recent years, there has been more literature on the Ugandan woman experience; most of it is radically centred on narratives of the patriarchy and feminine individuality. Then there is I Am A ...

The answers to today's Strands, game #372, are… Losing a REMOTE CONTROL is really frustrating. As a scatterbrained person ...

Now that we have poems available for free on the internet, as well as seemingly countless poets to choose from, it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

You may or may not share Dante’s religious convictions, but perhaps you can relate to the notion that romantic love at its best feels like a mystical, even spiritual, experience, and is disappointing ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “When,” by Elizabeth Alexander, and his own poem “Colosseum.” Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

But no one put it better than the US author and broadcaster Garrison Keillor, who predicted the wasteland of dead-eyed internet addiction and what it would do to people before the iPhone was ...

In the digital age, our minds are adapting — or perhaps surrendering — to external memory tools like search engines, digital ...