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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Since its founding in 1865, The Nation has published some of the most important voices in U.S. poetry, including Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Amiri Baraka and Adrienne Rich. But last week, the ...

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!,” ...

One has to wonder when James Franco ever sleeps. Hollywood’s most educated thespian — perhaps best-known for his Oscar-nominated turn as the guy who cut off his own arm in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” – ...