Twenty-five years. That’s how long the Chicago Public Library Foundation Awards have been honoring writers, artists and local ...

In her new collection, 'Towards a Retreat,' she examines foundational experiences and extols the natural world as refuge.

Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...

Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...

That perfectly describes Elkins. This mountain community rests gracefully in West Virginia’s heart like a photograph that decided to come alive. The weathered brick buildings march along the streets ...

Jesse Reyez’s poetry reading at The Oak Cliff Assembly in Dallas will bring her closer to her fans, one poem at a time.

Nearly two years after The B-Town Blog first featured his memoir Down the Road a Piece, Burien author and longtime educator Gaylloyd Sisson continues to write, travel, and share his story with readers ...

Shakespeare’s Ophelia was a woman driven to madness due to the whims of the men in her life. Swift’s Ophelia is a woman who is saved by men from the fate of her own madness. It is at best a shallow ...

Kentucky author Gurney Norman, who died on Oct. 12, encouraged generations of writers at UK and around the state.

Hart’s downfall showed private lives were no longer off-limits and set off a heated debate over whether the press had crossed ...

These anthologies are specifically created to teach reading, and generally feature excerpts from fiction and nonfiction books ...

A new scholarly study reveals how the Nobel-winning poet’s verse reflects a profoundly sacramental imagination.