Sameer Pandya’s Our Beautiful Boys (Ballantine, 2025) drops us into the dark heart of suburbia—literally. Four teens enter a cave in Southern California; only three come out unscathed. What unfolds is ...
What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.
Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and ...
Poets Safia Elhillo, Jamila Woods and members of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective shared poems both personal and political ...
On March 10, 2025, the Wisconsin Book Festival hosted the University of Wisconsin Creative Writing Department’s six masters ...
Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...
Poets from the San Diego community came together for an inspiring virtual evening hosted by Counselor Judy Sundayo and ...
Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.
As fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo rages on, a growing number of women in the country are turning to slam poetry to voice their hopes, dreams and fears amid the violence. Among them is ...
As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...
Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte believes in poetry. Specifically, he believes in its ability to rekindle emotions often buried or denied — from anguish and death, to joy and wonderment.