This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

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 ...

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

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

The Belfast poet cuts her words to fit, or suit, though her poems can also settle into the straightforwardness of a realist ...

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

Metallica frontman James Hetfield released a spoken-word reading of holiday poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.' ...

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

Harry Kalas passed away in 2009, but his recitation of the famous Christmas poem lives on. The origin story of Kalas' reading ...

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

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...