Earlier this summer, I had the immense pleasure of viewing the 2019 Whitney Biennial , which is still running, for a few more weeks (until ...

Today Twitter  (naturally) brought some very good news: one of my poems, "Words," which the brilliant poet and critic Dawn Lun...

Langston Hughes in Harlem, 1959. (The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Happy Black History Month!  February ushers in the month ...

"I emphasize the family ties between political violence and suffering not because they are nobler or more worthy than other forms of...

(Copyright © Flickr / WorCehT) In a recent issue of Jacobin   magazine, scholar, theorist, critic and activist Noam Chomsky , whose wor...

What is art? What is "good" art? What do we mean by "good" when we speak of art? Does "good" here equa...

Prageeta Sharma, Lantern Review's Flickr photo stream These are troubled times, but then one could easily say all times are so, de...

(From  desktop.freewallpaper4.me) Back in 2001, in an email to poet Joel Dias-Porter via the Cave Canem listserve, I offered a way to ...

"Wall-Street is a kind of commercial barometer, and I always observe the countenances of men of business in passing through this bus...