This week, the Shepards are in Philadelphia to introduce themselves to younger generations who have seen the sharp rise in ...

Two lifelong educators and authors have joined forces to promote and encourage literacy in the community through a poetry ...

Poetry can help us encounter the mystery at the heart of the matter without being destroyed.

I Never Said I Love You” is a swirling, spellbinding romance without the verbal confession — though it may have worked better as poetry.

Atlanta-based poet Jericho Brown talks about being named one of 22 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's 2024 "Genius" grants.

Two of the 26 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship award this year are Black queer men. They were awarded $800,000 to continue building on their work.

No snark. It’s dead writing. The books are invariably attractive, the author’s name booming across the cover, the stellar blurbs twinkling from the back. It’s a sort of nice house, nobody home feeling ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

Jila Mossaed fled Iran for Sweden in 1986, a 38-year-old poet who spoke no Swedish. Three decades later, she became the first ...

These titles span across genres including literary fiction, memoir, poetry, romance, thriller, historical nonfiction, and more.

"I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies" by June Jordan JOSÉ OLIVAREZ: I’m attracted to the way the poem’s rage is grounded in ...

As University of Iowa International Writing Program director for more than two decades and an accomplished writer himself — ...