Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year. By The New York Times Magazine Ishion Hutchinson’s remembrance of a poet he knew and of his influence. By Ishion ...

The poet Derek Walcott’s candidacy for a prestigious post at the University of Oxford drew such bitter criticism this month that the Nobel Prize winner withdrew from consideration. But the University ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) — Derek Walcott, a Nobel-prize winning poet known for capturing the essence of his native Caribbean, has died on the island of St. Lucia. He was 87. Walcott’s death in the ...

“I will undress myself and show you … my belly, how hair has covered my navel,/ the spot where my mother fed me before birth./ The same spot, they say, the angel of death/ will pierce to take away my ...

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 poet Derek Walcott died on Friday at the age of 87. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English language. In 1992, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Walcott also wrote ...

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 ...

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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - St. Lucia poet Derek Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, scooped the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry on Monday for his 2010 collection "White Egrets." He was ...

Poet Derek Walcott died this past week. Actor Tom Hiddleston reads his poem, "Love After Love." A Reading Of Derek Walcott's 'Love After Love' LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The poet Derek Walcott died ...