LSU has obtained one of the country's largest collections of African-American poetry, including a book once owned by Frederick Douglass and a collection of works by 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner ...

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The poet Constantine Cavafy was a cosmopolitan by both birth and inclination. His parents were Constantinople Greeks of what was then known as “good family”; by the time their youngest son was born in ...

Anyone who has enjoyed the Texas Gulf Coast mysteries written under the collective nom de plume of Miles Arceneaux has gotten a fair dose of James R. Dennis’ dry, wry humor, and his penchant for ...

Newman follows her excellent fourth volume, Dear Editor, with a snappy collection that similarly relies on a unifying concept, but in this case the concept can get in the way. Whereas the previous ...

ROME — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman ...

In "Franklinstein," published this spring, Brooklynite Susan Landers journeys back to her childhood neighborhood of Germantown to learn both its origin story and what she calls the "making of a modern ...

For St. Louis native and YourWordsSTL executive director Anna Ojascastro Guzon, poetry has never been a quick project. Her debut book of poetry, A Moth Collection, is a compilation of more than two ...

Maya Angelou’s legacy goes beyond the body of work she shared with the world during her lifetime. Her legacy as one of the greatest writers of all time also embodies the ability she had to hold on to ...