Vanessa Fortin Laundry of Legends II is part of a series of performances that begin with death poems. These particular texts become oracle making, death fuelled time-machines when they are transformed ...

Alan Seeger (1888–1916) was an American, stern Protestant, and minor poet who ended up dying at the Battle of the Somme, fighting with the French Foreign Legion. World War I is far more famous for its ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...

It's not a good sign when, on the way home after seeing a play titled as this is, one is trying to make up one's own Japanese poems. Here's one such attempt: "When you write a play/Do not call it ...