These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

Ambition: it’s the fuel that powers success, and the drive to do more, be more, and have more… But what if that ambition ...

While grieving the loss of her husband, Ellen Cantor composed 100 poems. Many of them appear in her book, “Unfolding Time” b ...

Ditlevsen, however, once wrote that she did much of her best work in poetry. There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections ...

“The people themselves said this term captured what they were feeling.” Graham Greene’s 1961 novel, A Burnt-Out Case, about an architect disillusioned by his job who withdraws into an ...

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. People attend the "emergency protest" organized ...

When I interviewed Wayne Dawson for a recent column about his second battle with jaw cancer, the Fox-8 TV anchor mentioned feeling empty. Dawson also is the pastor of Grace Tabernacle Baptist ...

Yet, nerve and muscle dysfunction can make it feel like you still need to empty your bowel. In order to counteract this sense of urgency, it helps to remind yourself that no further stool really needs ...

It’s that same belief and adoration of the natural world that comes to mind when reading Easterine Kire’s new collection of poetry ... and cherished trees, we feel their breath deepest ...