In 1996, Wislawa Szymborska was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. She was little known outside of her native Poland, but the award helped make her a major figure in modern world literature. Szymborska died Wednesday in Poland at age 88. Earlier tod

Familiar hands to be at the tiller : Kahn, Muse, Posner, McSweeney, Lord and Taichman A brand new adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, done in repertory with a production of Coriolanus directed by Stu

Artistic director Michael Kahn announced plays by Shakespeare, Gogol, Shaw and Schiller for the 2012-13 season at The Shakespare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. The new season features the return of repertory productions as part of the new Clarice Smi

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Coriolanus,” and works by Gogol and Schiller are on the schedule. Shakespeare Theatre Company announced the lineup for its 2012–13 season this morning, and seems to be cementing its reputation as a home for heavyweight liter

BOSTON, MA, January 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- An Evening of POEMJAZZ featuring renowned poet ROBERT PINSKY and Grammy-winning jazz pianist LAURENCE HOBGOOD comes to Greater Boston, in concert and live at The Regattabar at the Charles Hotel, One Benn

The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is