In mid-May, you will find old men with flowers in their hands, red paper poppies, offered in exchange for pennies. The poppies are made by men and women who have been disabled by war, veterans who ...

“What dark flower bloomed here,/ what promise led anyone/ down this path, black orchid/ red rose/ how does consciousness separate/ itself from the body?” These lines are part of the first poem (“The ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...

If we’re going to celebrate literary birthdays in February, it’s hard to dodge the birthday of James Joyce (1882–1941) on February 2, if only because Joyce is, well, Joyce. Over the past few decades, ...

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Sondra Zeidenstein describes herself as a gardener who can’t get enough of flowers. Flowers grace her desk, her table, her kitchen counter. A summer’s day finds her sweeping trails of pollen dust and ...

I fled a burning archipelago in the rain, on my mother’s back, in another war or perishes in a thicket of words. And so, speaking as one of the flowers, I’ll seek rest in falling. I’ll seek asylum in ...

For the 26th year in succession M. Prabhu of Udhagamandalam, a poet, has distributed copies of his poem ‘Kaatchiku Varatha Kadhambangal’ to visitors at the just concluded annual flower show, in ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...