Chicago poet Taylor Byas left home on a path of discovery. She met colorful characters along the way, encountered danger and beauty, and learned that what she sought was inside her all along. This ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective subjectivity, to the inner life of a country in the throes of deep pain and ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It is a time when the flowers ...

Alex Dimitrov’s fifth collection, “Ecstasy,” offers a rollicking paean to pleasure. By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City ...

Taylor Byas won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award for “I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times.” It’s the latest selection of the FYI Book Club. Courtesy Taylor Byas Chicago poet Taylor Byas left home on a ...