Sophie Calle is an artist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and performer whose work often makes use of Oulipian constraints.

Sophie Calle is an artist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and performer whose work often makes use of Oulipian constraints.

At ten, I wake him up by taking a photo. I bring him his coffee. I forgot the pain au chocolat and disregarded the newspaper.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...

Through the gilt palm fronds of rue Messaline.

When people see your truck, they tend to see what you can do for them.

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

A sentence is hard for a sudden to spin into space.

Saint, terrorist, fishwife. Stench that appals. Famines, machine guns, the Great Plague (your sickness), Rending of garments, cries, mass burials. I'd watched my beard sprout in the mirror's grave.

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

I first encountered Rita Dove in Essence magazine, where I learned that she’d won the 1987 Pulitzer for her book Thomas and Beulah (1986)—the first Black poet to be so awarded since Gwendolyn Brooks ...