Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness. The sea-turtle hatchlings, with their instinctual desire to move toward light, risk this ...

SIDDHARTHA Menon’s new poetry collection Lone Pine (Hachette India) carries 68 poems, most of which have titles inspired by the natural world: leaves, fog, river mornings. Topography teaches the poet ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

2 - 9 p.m. Kehrein Center for the Arts (5628 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago) Join Kalapriya Center for Indian Performing Arts for a festival celebrating the music and poetry of south Asia.