For one-third of the price of one F-35 Lightning II, the Pentagon made a key investment to ensure its supply of rare earth elements. The Department of Defense earlier this month announced that Lynas ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wellwater by Karen Solie (Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and a joint ...

During the 17th and early 18th century, three very prominent Pashto poets honoured what today is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. They were, in chronological order, Khushal Khan Khattak, Rahman Baba ...

Louisiana is a rich state of mixed-race people. Wendy A. Gaudin, a California native and descendant of Louisiana Creoles, approaches the complex tapestry of what it means to be Afro-Creole in ...

Though she grew up in New York and now calls Los Angeles home, Aja Monet’s six years in Miami played a pivotal role in her growth as a poet. Her second collection of poetry, Florida Water, out June 3, ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

In a 2023 interview, the New York Times asked two-time U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith to name poets she had gained a greater appreciation for over the course of her career. Smith named Essex ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

As I come to the end of my four years in college, I’ve done some reflecting on my favorite classes. One of the things I was most excited about for college was the opportunity to take courses on more ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Bookshop owner, publisher and writer Conner Bouchard-Roberts is halfway through his appointment as Port Townsend’s first poet laureate. “I’ve had a year now,” Bouchard-Roberts said ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems 1961-2023 by Margaret Atwood (Vintage/Knopf) The Canadian novelist began her ...

Grace Nichols is among the fine West Indian poets. She is Guyanese, a prize-winning writer with published collections of poetry, one novel for adult audiences and several children’s books. She has ...