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 ...

Language has a remarkable way of capturing not just meaning but sensation. Some words seem to sound like what they describe, ...

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

Pronounced “Old Lang Zyne,” experts say it started as a poem, and has since become a song that is now a staple in New Year’s ...

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.

As for Van Morrison, he begins one lyric found in “Lit Up Inside & Keep ’Er Lit: The Collected Lyrics” with “Rave on, John ...

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

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 ...

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

The Happy's Place star has been delivering holiday classics for decades, including her rendition of "The Christmas Guest." ...