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

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

Jason Kuhl, the library system's chief executive director, introduced Waugh to library patrons in the November 2025 issue of ...

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

Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from “Proof,” an original poem he has written for Zohran ...

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

Nico Patino, a Southern California poet who hails from the East Coast, was once an extreme pogo stick competitor who left ...

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

In his new book, English professor Michael Drout delves into Tolkien’s life and work while reminiscing about his own father ...

E very October, when the Nobel Prizes are announced, readers receive a gift: we are reminded that literature is vast—vaster than empires, to coin a phrase. Chances are, the laureate for literature ...

Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

Renowned Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua has made headlines by saying that the menopause was a happy thing and writing a poem in its praise. Yu, 49, from a village in central China’s Hubei province, achieved ...