Poetry

The poem 'Love Recognized' by Robert Penn Warren seems to portray the onrush of love less as a time of connection or magical transformation than as some kind of isolating and cataclysmic event. The guiding metaphor is one of snow that far from cosseting the landscape or allowing us to hunker down cosily against a backdrop of brilliant white...

The poet and theorist Fred Moten has long occupied a kind of liminal space on the margins of contemporary jazz music, with his 2003 exploration In the Break a signal text for anyone concerned with the black radical tradition and matters of black aesthetics. Yet while the names of Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler and Cecil Taylor...

Emily Dickinson was born on 10 December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the town where she would live the duration of her life. She attended Amherst Academy, newly opened to female students, for seven years, punctuated briefly by spells of illness and a stay in Boston in the aftermath of the death of her cousin, Sophia Holland. In her teens...