I woke up Thursday morning to the latest Internet controversy: a poem published in the New Yorker about Chinese regional cuisines, penned by Calvin Trillin, the man who drew up the blueprints for ...

Calvin Trillin, author most recently of Obliviously On He Sailed: The Bush Administration in Rhyme, has been contributing poems this week based on events at the Democratic National Convention. His ...

One critic called the poem "light white verse" while another called it "casually racist." But Trillin and the esteemed magazine both defended it.

Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected one poem by Calvin Walds for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.

Calvin and Hobbes have probably the best friendship in comics history, and some strips reflect that better than others. Here are the 10 all-time best!

Calvin Trillin wrote a poem about Chinese food in the April 4 issue of the New Yorker that made the Internet mad. In the poem, Trillin satirizes food trend chasers, in this case name-checking ...

Calvin C. Hernton, edited by David Grundy and Lauri Scheyer. Wesleyan Univ, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8195-0036-6 Cofounder of the Umbra Poets Workshop and a member of the Black Arts Movement ...

This week, Calvin Trillin, a food writer and humorist published a poem in The New Yorker called “Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?” The poem goes: Have they run out of provinces yet?

With some help from Roz Chast, Calvin Trillin is aiming his next jokes at a younger audience. The 80-year-old author, journalist and humorist has a deal with Scholastic for “No Fair! No Fair!… ...

Writer Calvin Trillin is crafting small poems about the proceedings of the Democratic National Convention each day this week. Today, he takes stock of Teresa Heinz Kerry, John Kerry's wife ...