Book Review ‘Requisites,’ by Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe, Mica Press & Campanula Books, United Kingdom, 2025, reviewed by ...

By Isaiah AdepojuWriting about men is a labour — a difficult, uninteresting labour. Those who try to write about it barely go beyond the surface. We may begin to wish nothing has been written at all, ...

To understand the role of storytelling in contemporary pop music, researchers at UC Berkeley created a machine learning ...

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

Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Despite gaining national renown after “The Raven” was published in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe never enjoyed great financial success. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...