Playwright Marisela Treviño Orta, like many movie lovers, is a fan of “Harold and Maude,” Hal Ashby’s 1971 movie about a death-obsessed youth (Bud Cort) who falls for a free-spirited septuagenarian ...
What is the past? John Glenday offers a surprising answer to that question in The Empire of Lights, one of the great poems of the last 30 years. “The past is the antithesis of burglary,” it ...
Here’s hoping next week won’t have to strike that same balance. Kwame Alexander went on The Late Show and read his late mentor Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Still Life With Apron.” The story he told of how ...