Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

More than a decade ago, Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kiper self-published a book of poetry filled with sexual ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

The Atlantic magazine introduced many now-classic works by writers including Longfellow, Whitman and Frost.

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

Word Up! Poetry Festival” will be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Central Library downtown on. Student teams and ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

A Visit from St. Nicholas' is one of America's most beloved poems. But few can have read it carefully. If they had, our idea ...