“A Crane Takes Flight” aims to take a fresh look at Ohio native Hart Crane, a renowned American poet. Evolution Theatre Company’s world premiere of Mark Phillips Schwamberger’s play will open Sept. 8 ...

IT would be difficult to conceive a more tragic and wretched and in many ways sordid story than Mr. Philip Horton gives us in his life of Hart Crane; and it is greatly to Mr. Horton’s credit that out ...

HART CRANE (452 pp.)—Brom Weber—The Bodley Press ($4.50) Hart Crane was born in 1899, and committed suicide in 1932. His admirers considered him potentially one of the greatest American poets.

Crane's strenuous optimism about America, his barely coded celebrations of homoerotic desire and his bejeweled, dense, late Romantic language made him perhaps the most fiercely cherished of modernists ...

For Hart Crane’s first book of poems, the slender White Buildings (1926), there was a whole bouquet of reviews to die for. True, the owlish Edmund Wilson was not impressed: “almost something like a ...

Last Friday, in honor of National Poetry Month, we began our weekly tribute to great gay poets, thanks to guest blogger Julia Garbowski. In “Celebrate National Poetry Month With Great Gay Poets!,” ...

At Melville’s Tomb Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he watched, Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured. And ...