Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. By The New York Times Magazine Ishion Hutchinson’s remembrance of a poet he knew and of his influence. By Ishion ...

“I will undress myself and show you … my belly, how hair has covered my navel,/ the spot where my mother fed me before birth./ The same spot, they say, the angel of death/ will pierce to take away my ...

The poet Derek Walcott died on Friday at the age of 87. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Walcott also wrote ...

The horizon threads it infinitely. Bored, shifts its dunes. The surf tires of its castles like a child. The salt-green vine with yellow trumpet-flower, A net, inches across nothing. Nothing: the rage ...

Nobel laureate Derek Walcott has died aged 87. The Saint Lucian poet and playwright received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 and was best known for his works including the epic poem Omeros, a ...

In the week following the passing of Derek Walcott, a friend who lives in New York mailed me The New York Times article, “Derek Walcott, lyrical voice and Nobel laureate of the Caribbean Dies.” ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) — Derek Walcott, a Nobel-prize winning poet known for capturing the essence of his native Caribbean, has died on the island of St. Lucia. He was 87. Walcott’s death in the ...

The local Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with the Derek Walcott Festival in Trinidad, has recently announced the winner of the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize awarded annually to a full-length ...

Rarely can so much dirty laundry have fluttered in the quadrangles of Oxford. The ancient universities are well accustomed to poisonous rows, literary and otherwise. But in the long history of ...

Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British ...

Fans of movement arts on stage and in film will have their dance cards full this week, with the return of the Dance Camera West Film Festival, tech-soul interfaces at Highways, anti-ageism performance ...