One of these days, I swear, C and I are going to experience Carnaval (or Carnival) in Dominican Republic, Brazil, Trinidad , Panama, France,...

One event that continues to reverberate now that the 2011 AWP Conference has ended is author and critic Claudia Rankine 's "perform...

He's gone! As per the wishes of a majority of the Egyptian people, President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak today officially and fully vacated...

A poet (I have known for half my adult life, and not least for his prestidigitory skills) decided to engage in his own form of protest durin...

On Friday afternoon, after spending a little time at the university's info table, talking up the MA/MFA program and Triquarterly Online ...

(Nesta Robert) Bob Marley was born today in 1945, in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica , and died on May 11, 1981, in Miami, Florida . It goes ...

It's February, it's winter quarter, it's the time of the year when I don't have time to breathe. But I did manage to get to ...

Six Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1987) chalkboard-style paintings, under the title Tuxedo , from the Paris Review 's Spring 1983, No. 87 ...

Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), among the greatest intellectuals, artists, critics, creators, thinkers to emerge from the 20th century Ca...

Today begins Black History Month , which is celebrated throughout the month of February in both the United States and Canada (in UK it occur...

A while back I mentioned that the journal Encyclopedia 's second volume, F-K , would soon be out, and it is now on bookstands and availa...

David Kato (Photo: Frontline, CAHR) Gukira has one of the best (as always), most thoughtful and considerate memorial posts I've read...

In the introduction to his brilliant study of MFA programs and their effects on American literature, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and th...

Wandering around Chelsea a few weekends back when I was home for an event, I happened upon one of the empty storefronts (300 W. 22nd St...

Over the winter break I dropped by The Kitchen to check out artist Adam Pendleton 's solo exhibit BAND .  I've followed Pendleton...

It's his video for "Runaway," but actually contains a condensed medley of many of his songs on his recent album, My Dark Twist...

Last week Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson claimed that were the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (at left, Riverf...

The more my workload increases, the more I find myself dreaming of books, writing, reading, blogging, immersing myself in works of imaginati...

Holly Pickett/NY Times So the Tunisian people have driven out their corrupt, authoritarian president, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali , in office...

One of the truisms of this world is that someone somewhere is always leaving us. Years ago I realized that if I were to note the death of ev...