This is the book that ended my career,” says Rachel Rooney, holding a copy of My Body is Me, a picture book for three to six-year-olds published in 2019. You could not find a more innocuous, ...

Tarkeshwari Sinha became a parliamentarian at 26 and was India’s first female deputy finance minister and Jawaharlal Nehru’s ...

A healthcare professional and poet discusses healing the spirit, New Zealand’s landscape, and using poetry to witness ...

Lyric fails of the ’70s In the past, singing along to a favorite song meant risking lyrical inaccuracies, especially with only AM radio as a guide. … ...

Yadaa.at Kalé senior Cassie Lumba says performing her favorite poems has taught her what it means to open up, and how powerful words can be.

Ibn Arabi explains that Nizam, representing divinity, cannot be understood through orthodox dogma but through love alone. Her solitary chamber, he clarifies, is actually the human heart. He also ...

A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were ...

A proud Angeleno, he taught for decades at his alma mater, California State University–Los Angeles, mentoring poets such as ...

JANINE: Big crowd in tonight, Jeff. JEFF: Including Bob the superfan. Bob here has never actually seen Jess perform. JANINE: Let’s help him picture her in his head - we can use metaphors and similes.

When her final poetry book, Hey Girl!, was published in 2021, the CLPE – which had nominated all three of her previous collections for an award – left it off its shortlists. “It was the book I wanted ...

No Saints Nor Poets is another unique queer genre comic with a world that draws on the aesthetic of the Italy of the past while being super relevant for 2026 ...

Perhaps the oldest surviving long poem in Old English, Beowulf is commonly seen as one of the most important works of Old English Literature. While the date of the poem’s composition is still debated, ...