Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Based on his 2017 short collection of poems The Broken Men Chapbook, Word N Sound co-founder and poet Thabiso Mohare aimed to ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

How do you write about the life of a man who was “all his life… patiently learning how not to live at all”? Poet, critic, translator, and teacher — Ayyappa Pani ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and ...

Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...