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

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

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

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own ...

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 9,015 entries flooded the poetry, 詩, category of this newspaper’s New Year literary contest, which closed on the 8th of ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

The newest of technologies defeated by one of the oldest human arts: poetry. This is what a group of Italian researchers and ...

PBS has stopped airing former Harvard English professor Elisa F. New’s show, “Poetry in America,” after emails released by ...

Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, ...