In June 2026, we will publish an anthology of writing from 177 of these young people in the “1455 Young Poets Anthology.” More than 300 young people submitted their poems to a nonprofit I run, called ...

Molly Lynn Watt’s “Jazz Riff” was among five winning poems from the Sidewalk Poetry Contest held in 2016. (Photo: Cambridge Arts) Fifteen squares of sidewalk citywide have already been stamped with ...

Actor Nick Offerman does not recommend launching a small open boat into the East River. He tried that once. “There are some vicious currents and the wake created from just something as benign as a ...

Hama, Jan. 31 (SANA) Not everything mixed with water becomes clay, and not everything dried beneath the sun hardens into lifeless stone. In the hands of an artist, concrete rebels against its nature ...

There are certain topics that invite involuntary shudders – salary chat, literary beef, and, indeed, dreams. Fortunately, in Alia Kobuszko’s first collection Dream Latitudes (Faber, £12.99), dreams ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

CONCRETE enabled the ancient Romans to erect structures that surpassed in grandiosity even the marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy—and in most of Europe, where ...

Pattern poetry (known variously as figure poem, shaped verse, visual poetry, concrete poetry, and carmen figuratum) is a form of poetry that may be easily recognized due to the arrangement of its ...

Visitors from far and near come to Taipei’s Dihua Street to experience the bustling energy and warm hospitality in the clusters of shops selling traditional dried foodstuffs. Architectural styles from ...

Concrete is anything but a consensus. Some love it, others hate it. It can feel as tough as granite or soft as velvet — all depending on whose hands are doing the shaping. Treated with engineering ...

In New York, David Nolan Gallery presents a centennial exhibition on the pioneering artist, poet, and gardener. Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Revolution is Frozen—All Principles Are Weakened. There Remain ...