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Womex 2025 - Field Report

It's October, which means while many people around the globe are trying to decide what costume to wear for Halloween, we were busy trying to decide which showcases to see at the 31st edition of the ...
A plant-supporting wall system inspired by the UAE’s salt flats, or sabkhas, is being presented by designer group Hala ...
Lawrence and Pattinson talk 'Die My Love,' unorthodox romance, and how Lynne Ramsay turned a postpartum descent into an ...
The poet will be inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame on November 7 at the University of Nevada, Reno as part of the University Libraries' mission.
"It's just having the courage to be vulnerable. It's also a revelatory process of writing. It’s self-revealing to a degree." ...
Purdue Fort Wayne is home to fierce competition regularly, but normally it takes place inside the Gates Center, not the Walb student Union. And usually it involves ...
Day After the Waste Land” is part graphic novel, part adult children’s book, and a full reimagining of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” — and Eliot probably would've hated it, according to the author.
I was looking for an autumn poem, maybe a Thanksgiving poem, and this one landed in my lap. Only a mention of autumn but full of thanksgiving. Billy Collins’ poems ...
Resident riffmaster Stephen Carpenter minced no words in this 2000 interview, rolling his eyes at “our friends” Korn, and even – before walking it back – calling his bandmate's guitar-work “awful.” ...
A perfect Philly day would include the singsong of backyard birds, a killer brunch, typewriter shopping, a sunset picnic, and whiskey and a joint under the stars.
I must enter our life like a comet, I must sing, preach, struggle, weep and burn…” — Avetik Isahakyan It is rare for the poet ...
For Anna Mekunts, poetry is less a craft than a state of being. She writes as she feels — without prescribed forms or rules — ...