A review of The Letters of Hart Crane 1916-1932, edited by Brom Weber. Anybody who knew Hart Crane will come away from his letters both depressed and relieved. I confess that I hope I shall not have ...

IT would be difficult to conceive a more tragic and wretched and in many ways sordid story than Mr. Philip Horton gives us in his life of Hart Crane; and it is greatly to Mr. Horton’s credit that out ...

“A Crane Takes Flight” aims to take a fresh look at Ohio native Hart Crane, a renowned American poet. Evolution Theatre Company’s world premiere of Mark Phillips Schwamberger’s play will open Sept. 8 ...

Hart Crane, who is famous for having jumped off the back of a boat at age 32 after having been lauded as one of America’s greatest poets, is most often associated with New York. This makes sense: ...

Crane's strenuous optimism about America, his barely coded celebrations of homoerotic desire and his bejeweled, dense, late Romantic language made him perhaps the most fiercely cherished of modernists ...

James Franco wrapped his twenties-set Hart Crane biopic, The Broken Tower, on Tuesday morning, he told us at Rob Pruitt’s 2010 Art Awards at Webster Hall on Wednesday night. Though he said he’d ...

The Broken Tower, James Franco’s new movie (he wrote, directed, and stars) about the life of Hart Crane (best known for his epic poem about the Brooklyn Bridge), was released on Video on Demand and ...

James Franco’s biopic of gay poet Hart Crane, playing at the Los Angeles Film Festival, may serve better as his thesis film than as a commercial release. By Todd McCarthy A stone-skipping account of ...

As we reported a few days ago, actor/director James Franco has made a movie about the poet Hart Crane, whose troubled life ended in 1932 when he threw himself into the sea off the coast of Florida. As ...

One has to wonder when James Franco ever sleeps. Hollywood’s most educated thespian — perhaps best-known for his Oscar-nominated turn as the guy who cut off his own arm in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” – ...