Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

The demands of ideological conformity have ruined several generations of MFA-trained American writers.

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.