Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Nestled in the heart of Wicker Park, Myopic Books stands as a beacon for book lovers, its green storefront a siren call to ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

One of the joys of Downtown Books is the unexpected treasures you might find tucked between the pages of a used book. A ...

Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oliver tapped her love of nature and solitary walks to draw insights into living. She presents no borders between her poetry her insights ...

This, and her newest book, Modern Poetry ... There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, the first English translation of those poems, starts with selections from A Girl’s Mind, published ...

The third-year computer science student independently published his first book, “what’s real: poetry for everyone ... the world beyond the English language, considering it one of his ...

Words for Love, and Comfort, are the first two titles of the new creative Poetry Prescription series... eight pocket-sized gift books containing carefully curated ‘prescriptions in verse ...