Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and ... There are endless amounts of ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

With these relatively short poems, you'll understand why poets ... Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry, ...

"One of the most familiar symbols of the celebration is the calavera (skull), and travelers to Mexico can buy sugar calaveras or read literary calavera – short, humorous poems that poke fun at ...

In “The Message,” Coates urges young writers to aspire to “nothing less than doing their part to save the world,” but his ...

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

a happy poem might have short, bouncy lines. In this extract from the poem Aliens Stole My Underpants, Brian Moses uses a catchy rhyme and beat to suggest a funny tale being told: To understand ...

Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student ...

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious ...

Explore the intersection of film and other art forms at the Refocus Film Festival happening in Iowa City Oct. 17 to Oct. 20 ...

October, 2024. Don’t judge! I know it’s Octobermumble mumble (not October 1st)! Doesn’t life sometimes get away from you?