Ramakaushalyan Ramakrishnan’s Poem of the Wind is made of fragments. We dip in and out of moments and scenes from a theatre artist Bharani’s life. These range from his childhood to the very nether.

I fell in love with this poem on first reading it. Its simple yet evocative language, the subtle shift in significance and ...

The wind is wild; the fire is not tame. You mouth the prayers, recite the ancient creed. If you will, you can become all flame. You scour the Scriptures, making truth your aim. You advertise your ...

“there’s a bluebird in my heart that/wants to get out/but I’m too tough for him/I say, stay in there, I’m not going/to let anybody see/you” Charles Bukowski’s poem Bluebird becomes an entry point for ...

Poet, novelist, critic, and professor Mark Van Doren (1894–1972) numbered among his Columbia University students such literary figures as John Berryman and Thomas Merton. An advocate for liberal ...

Phil Elverum is drawn to forces that are bigger than himself. Throughout his discography as Mount Eerie and The Microphones, death is often personified as an unconquerable mountain, while booming ...