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

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 ...

Poets, clergy, novelists, actors, journalists, short story writers have each stood beneath the airy gazebo and offered word ...

Desire/Halves,” the debut collection by Jai Hamid Bashir, brims with animal energy, the snake, the dog, the oyster, the deer, ...

Through the eyes of author and longtime Oregonian Ellen Waterston, poetry is everywhere. A shapeshifting medium, it doesn’t always look the same. Robert Frost’s short yet prolific “The Road Not Taken” ...

A Palestinian poet and Vietnamese novelist both living in exile reflect on two revolutionary writers who inspired them.

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

Meet Jules Lee, Western's 2024-25 student writer-in-residence. The poet and short story writer looks forward to cultivating creativity and community.

Coldplay's Chris Martin knows that a song is not a poem, and that a pop concert is not meant to be an opera – it's pop music.

From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

Thoughts of Sterling uses vivid, thought-provoking language and words as pictures to navigate contrasts that define the human spirit—hope and despair, love and heartbreak, the beauty of a relationship ...

Letters to San Francisco” is a collection of stories and poems, by renowned San Francisco writers, expressing their love, and ...