Queens College hosted a poetry reading by Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at the Flushing-based college who was ...

For poet and artist Andriana Karamitros, writing in Greek is an act of love, loss and loyalty to the homeland that shaped her ...

GASPING for breath, convulsing and his back arching in pain – five-year-old Garnett Spear’s last moments – caught on CCTV – ...

Dozens of senior citizens hailing from all five boroughs sang, danced and performed poetry in the city’s third annual Talent ...

When Laci Mosier first started renting this one-bedroom Brooklyn apartment, she slept on an air mattress for six weeks while ...

Masterpiece by calligrapher Wang Xianzhi restored in full using artificial intelligence and fragments of the original.

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...

In my new poetry collection I reclaim tragic heroines, or at least imagine a different ending to their stories ...

If it is possible to take the measure of a person by how the internet responds to their death, then Tony Fitzpatrick was a giant. Thousands of memories and good wishes and stories have been pouring ...

Born in Shiraz between 1310 and 1325, Khajeh Shamseddin Mohammad Hafeẓ Shirazi, known by his pen name Hafez, is best known ...

As Sean “Diddy” Combs waits to learn where he’ll spend his 50-month federal prison sentence, the rapper reportedly told his toddler daughter in a heartbreaking phone call that he wasn’t coming home as ...

LISDOONVARNA, Ireland — Years ago, while traveling with my family along Ireland's west coast, I spotted a curious billboard. It was blue and hot pink, and showed a man with shoulder-length hair and a ...