The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union ...

Overall, “Pledge of a Revolutionary Poet” presents Saroj Dutta’s poetry as part of a broader political and cultural movement, ...

To knock on a door and talk politics with a neighbor. To crack open a book and hear a new voice. To canvass a side street, zig-zagging between houses. To turn from one line to the next until you reach ...

The artificial intelligence industry is growing, along with debates on how it should be regulated. Critics are concerned about the quality chatbots give, whether the information is accurate or if they ...

IN the spring of 1001, Joel Elias Spingarn emerged from his retirement and gave a series of six lectures at the New School for Social Research in New York. Here, published for the first time, is the ...

The past two COVID years, characterized by limited interactions and confinement to our homes, have only underscored the extent to which ours has become a culture of spectatorship. Unlike the dog in ...

A poem from the Sun’s poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), closes out the Poem of the Day’s week-long celebration of Greek and Latin classical meters in English. Author most recently of “Spending ...

W.H. Auden hated Percy Bysshe Shelley’s apothegm that poets are “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” That phrase, he wrote, “describes the secret police, not the poets.” Having put his ...

This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with poet W.S. Merwin, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize. During the taping of the interview, Merwin argued that political poetry rarely makes for good ...

On Kim Hye-soon “The last enemy to be destroyed is death,” (1 Corinthians 15:26) the Apostle Paul declares. He says that death, the “last enemy,” can be destroyed, can be overcome. This is also a ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...