Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first began rapping, Shakur spent a few o ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem "The Odyssey," Odysseus' men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens' ...

Maud Ludington Cain died in 1965, and I'm guessing she'd be as surprised as anyone to learn one of her poems is being published today in the Chico Enterprise-Record.

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu tables the Tamil Nadu Budget for 2025-26 in the legislative assembly today amid the ...

The two worlds of Sabyasachi Mukherjee spread across two floors of the Nilaya Anthology in Mumbai are like twins separated at ...

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

Summer in Vienna surprised me with an unbearable wave of heat. It lasted only two weeks but felt like an eternity under the sun and in buildings with no AC. Koko and I tried our best to make the most ...