A few nights before Christmas, things were not silent all through the house after all. In the run-up to the holiday, ...

This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

Jason Kuhl, the library system's chief executive director, introduced Waugh to library patrons in the November 2025 issue of ...

Jonah and Me' is a chance for readers to sit with poet John F Deane as he reflects on an immense career, a life lived in ...

Metallica frontman James Hetfield released a spoken-word reading of holiday poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.' ...

Harry Kalas passed away in 2009, but his recitation of the famous Christmas poem lives on. The origin story of Kalas' reading ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

In this episode of Urdunama, host Fabeha Syed turns to one of Ghalib’s most well-known ghazals, ‘Koi Umeed Bar Nahin Aati’, ...

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

The Belfast poet cuts her words to fit, or suit, though her poems can also settle into the straightforwardness of a realist ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?