Poet, playwright and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott died Friday after a long illness at his home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia, his publisher said. He was 87. “Derek Walcott passed away this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Connie Mason Michaelis One of my favorite poems is "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott. I think it especially speaks to those of us ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. By The New York Times ...

In the week following the passing of Derek Walcott, a friend who lives in New York mailed me The New York Times article, “Derek Walcott, lyrical voice and Nobel laureate of the Caribbean Dies.” ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University English faculty member is the winner of the third annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, a prestigious prize presented to a living poet who is not a ...

The local Arrowsmith Press, in conjunction with the Derek Walcott Festival in Trinidad, has recently announced the winner of the 2024 Derek Walcott Prize awarded annually to a full-length ...

Discussion of Derek Walcott and West India drama with particular reference to Not only a playwright but a company : the Trinidad Theatre Workshop 1959-1993, by Bruce King.

One of my favorite poems is "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott. I think it especially speaks to those of us who have lived a long life. peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. I ...

Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British ...

Fans of movement arts on stage and in film will have their dance cards full this week, with the return of the Dance Camera West Film Festival, tech-soul interfaces at Highways, anti-ageism performance ...