My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie ... boy rose from his seat as I was introducing a poem and called out, “Don’t talk, just do the poems!” ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

Ever since the University of Iowa libraries became home to the Sackner Archive in 2019, their collection of works has ...

This is called wood, and this one horsehair ... divine place in which life and death are constantly interacting. The speaker is alone in the strictest sense, but he doesn’t seem to mind – he plays ...

After Sterling Morrison quit the Velvet Underground, he traded his guitar for poetry books. We take a close look at his ...

Long-time Berks Countian and internationally known poet John Yamrus has announced the publication of his 41st book, a new volume of poems called ... people and real life…and real life is ...

In the 1927 poem “Incident,” Cullen delicately takes the reader on a quick journey to Baltimore, where he’s called a racial .

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

Yet the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation of love: the love of a man for a woman, the love of any human being for their fellow human, the love of Israel for Israel’s God, and the ...

You have edited Yaraana, India’s first anthology of gay writing. What was the experience like? Hoshang Merchant: I will take ...

Hope is crucial for those of us with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or any cancer, helping us navigate the disease's ...

I think my favourite memoir is Elton John’s Me, ghostwritten by the music critic Alexis Petridis. The Elton who emerges is a chaotic, talented dickhead who is magnetically likeable: a dickhead who ...