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 ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

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

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 ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

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

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...