A student-written opera about the eponymous American poet, “Hart Crane,” tells the life story of an artist who is regarded as one of the most brilliant of his generation. Matthew A. Aucoin ’12—who ...

Don’t miss, in this week’s Culture section, Paul Mariani’s lively piece on working with the actor James Franco in a recent film adaptation of Mariani’s own biography of the American poet Hart Crane.

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 ...

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.

Discussion by David C. Ward, co-curator of "Hide/Seek" and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery. When the great romantic modernist poet Hart Crane committed suicide, artist Marsden Hartley ...

If dramatic lives require grand art to do them justice, then the life of influential American poet Hart Crane deserves a grand staging. “Hart Crane” is an original opera about the life and work of the ...

Between his acting career, university studies and vast array of other artistic ventures, multi-hyphenate James Franco has made several directorial efforts in recent months, including a film about ...

After a long week of hating on Lena Dunham for possibly being racist, it is time for this glorious thing called American Culture to find a new object for our collective jealousy and scorn. I thus ...

You’re standing on the fourth step of an old brownstone stoop in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., on a cold, raw, cloudy morning in early December. It’s 7:30 a.m. and you’ve been up since 6:00 a.m., when two ...