You can’t force poetry. The words must be born when they are born. They’re all born together like strings of paper dolls ...

Black Student Association (BSA) and Saint Mary’s Sexuality and Gender Equity (SAGE) hosted the “Harlem Legacy” event in honor of Black History Month, where students shared original poetry and famous ...

The Chicago-based band Dehd released their fifth album “Poetry” last year. Listen for more about their discography and history. [music] KATE POLLOT: This year, Chicago-based band Dehd celebrates its ...

Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and ...

Prepare to have your mind blown.” Thus concludes fantasy author Joshua Palmatier’s introduction to “Combat Monsters,” a ...

Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...

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

For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ran its ...

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

But in late January, just one week before his 50 th birthday, he received the draft copy of his first self-published book, ...

Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for ...