Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

Jerry Villere leads the newest book library book club, which meets at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.

Nithya Mariam John's poetry collection intertwines family history, food, and gender, sparking conversations around culinary literature and gender roles.

Ugandan comedy was once feted as the wave of the future. Today, English-speaking comedians have retreated, with Ugandan jokesters declaring they make more money from paying audiences abroad ...

Today, 5 February, is World Read Aloud Day (WRAD). The Publishers’ Association of South Africa (PASA) and Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, invite you to help spread a love of ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Would modern Indian poetry in English ever have existed ... storyteller, the love of life and the love of poetry were continuous with each other. An Indian word for improvised solutions to ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ever written.

Another piece featured Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who became the first to achieve ...