Bill Clinton

For the inauguration of US President Bill Clinton , the new president resuscitated an old tradition by inviting MA to compose and read an inaugural poem. For this occasion she wrote On the Pulse of Morning.

TM cared deeply about politics, broadly defined. She believed the best art is always political. As a child she was already a member of the civil rights movement, and she took to feminism when it...

AR declined the National Medal of the Arts offered by US President Bill Clinton , because, she said, of the way that politics was increasing economic and racial inequality, and concentrating power in fewer and...

After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...

First among the acknowledgements stands the name of AW 's forebear May Poole , who lived under slavery and reportedly died at the age of a hundred and twenty-five. The volume's strong element of...