Intellectual heavyweight Jean Genet wrote powerfully about a friend's prison death. A French singer took the words and made them a song.
Hélène Martin: Putting Poetry to Song
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A Swedish Filmmaker's Answer to Angst
It involves laugh bags, vampire teeth and a king who rises from the dead. What is it with Sweden?
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Rules for Burning Books
A professed lover of literature makes a case for book burning.
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Remembering the Poet Who Dreamed of a United Africa
Jacob Kushner remembers a Ghanaian poet, two years after the terrorist attack that killed him.
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Why You Should Listen to T.S. Eliot
Fifty years after Eliot's death, the sound of the 20th century's great conservative poet can still conjure St. Louis, Great Britain and the impending fog of war.
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India's Elegant Literary Hermit
The nation that has birthed a bevy of literary talent has one more treat for us.
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The Hip-Hop Novelist to Add to Your Reading List
A hip-hop artist and slam poet's debut novel hits the U.S. this year - and we peg him as a new great.
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A New Page for Cuba's Literary Scene
This island nation's literary scene remains limited and guarded today. But Cuban literature holds remarkable promise.
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Let's Send Philosophers and Poets to Mars
Hold your engines, NASA. Mars needs intellectuals and thinkers on board spaceships, too.
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The Surprisingly Sex-Filled Life of Shel Silverstein
Children's author Shel Silverstein was once a cartoonist at Playboy and a regular in Hugh Hefner's pleasure dome.
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Drunken! Careening! Writers! The Liveliest Reading Series in NYC
We spoke with playwright Kathleen Warnock about her reading series, which has been running monthly since 2004.
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Meklit: Bringing the Sounds of the World to Her Melodies
Ethio-jazz singer-songwriter Meklit is using birdsong and science to craft intricate melodies and create a sound all her own.
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India's Gritty, Glamorous Poet Reads
Booker-shortlisted author, musician and poet Jeet Thayil sounds like Burroughs and Baudelaire embraced.
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The Slam Poetry That Could Be Front-Page News
Emi Mahmoud, winner of the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam, turns tragedy into art.
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Five Reasons I Couldn't Let This Poet Go
Singaporean poet Alvin Pang has a rare flair for the relevant and lyrical alike. Hear him read on race, fathers and the concept of success.
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Eugene S. Robinson Vs. National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is full of all manner of love of metered verse. Yep. Full of it.
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The Ancient Poem That Will Put Your Life in Perspective
You don't have to be a depressed celebrity to find solace in one of the Sufi mystic Rumi's most unforgettable poems.
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Listen to This Poet Blending German and Japanese
She might be the next Calvino - except she's got one more language on him. Meet a strange and beautiful poet and writer.
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Listen to the Bard of Djibouti
Francophone poet, novelist and scholar Abdourahman Waberi jokes that he's the "Dante of Djibouti." Which is a surprisingly big job.
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Meet Microsoft's 'Chief Literary Officer' Scripting Cortana's Charisma
Meet the chatty writer behind Microsoft's artificially intelligent bot.
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