Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, ...

Bimal Roy's 'Devdas', a 1955 classic, is a poignant masterpiece of Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar's portrayal of a doomed lover ...

Ten emerging writers, from an author of speculative fiction to a poet rooted in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, have ...

On April 10, award-winning poet Dante Micheaux visited the Illini Union Bookstore and read a selection of his poems to an audience.

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

A direct descendant of William Wordsworth has spoken of his sadness of having to put the poet's house up for sale. Christopher Wordsworth Andrew says that he and his brother Simon Bennie have ...

Chamber Poets convener Myron Lysenko, and collective volunteers Jenny Zimmerman, Helen McDonald, Wendy Purcell, Talon Gostelow and Linda Stuart at the Woodend RSL. (Damjan Janevski). 466737_01 On the ...

Taylor Swift's new album mentions singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus, with Dacus confirming Swift sought her approval beforehand. The lyrics refer to past emotional turmoil involving Matty Healy.

Lucy Dacus recently revealed that Taylor Swift asked her before naming her in the title track of her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, released in April 2024. For the unversed ...