“He’s going to die any minute now,” a college classmate of mine said in 1994, when the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra had just turned eighty and we were eighteen. I asked if the poet was sick or something ...

Trainer Michael Matz switched Nicanor to the turf for his fourth career start and it clearly suited the colt well, as he demolished a maiden special weight field by 15 1/4 lengths at Delaware Park May ...

Nicanor's maiden voyage was nothing like his brother Barbaro's. Barbaro romped in his maiden start at Delaware Park winning by eight-and-a-half clear lengths. Nicanor was 24-three-fourth lengths back ...

He's been called the "Ghost of Barbaro". Already, people are clamoring to see him run his first race. His name is Nicanor—and he might be the savior horse racing has been looking for. Nicanor is by ...

Nicanor Parra, a Chilean poet whose use of direct, colloquial and playful language, often for ironic and comic effect, pioneered the literary movement that became known as anti-poetry, died on ...

Although it has been more than seven months since Barbaro was euthanized, owner Roy Jackson says that he and his wife, Gretchen, still receive plenty of letters and fan mail about the fallen champion.

Manhattan’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has had a rough couple of years. The Upper West Side art and architecture museum shut down in March of 2020 alongside other New York institutions ...