Cottonwoods
/a poem
Read MoreFlowers of Prison
/Controversial Chinese artist and activist Ai WeiWei set an art installation inside the walls of America's most notorious prisons - with surreal and sometimes beautiful results.
Read MoreTitle Menu: 6 Lyric Voices of Witness
/The voice of poetry can often be the voice of lyric witness, turning our attention to moments in history that would have eluded us, or that might never have been felt as well as understood. These titles perform this function about as well as it can be done.
Read MoreAn Unfolding Elegy
/When sudden death claimed poet Jake Adam York at the age of 40, it cut short his life's work of commemorating all the martyrs of the American Civil Rights movement; Teow Lim Goh re-reads the man and his work.
Read MoreOffice Space
/When we read poetry, we want the transcendence of art: how is that compatible with being at work? A new collection of poems explores the possibilities.
Read MoreBeyond Thought
/The style of Clarice Lispector's unconventional and uneasy fiction was driven by both social anxiety and physical pain. How did this transubstantiation take place?
Read MoreThe Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Over the River
/New York artist Christo wants to drape 5.9 miles of silvery fabric over a 42 mile stretch of the Arkansas River. The sketches are lovely, but locals and environmentalists are horrified. Who's in the right?
Read MoreTruth be Told: On Natasha Trethewey
/Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway mines American history--the early colonies, slavery, the Civil War--for the material of her poetry. Teow Lim Goh visits with the figures she's brought back to life.
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