Founded during the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s, Kwanzaa is a non-religious holiday that is observed by millions of ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand ...

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

The apex of my patience. Final approach into the southland. An end or a beginning. Both could be bad. (Or Good.) We’re ...

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

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

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

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Jan is ready for a new challenge. She's recently moved to Colorado and wants to take advantage of the new terrain and start mountain running. Before the move, she'd been working on her fitness for ...

Here & Now 's Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Evan Wang, the first young man to be named the National Youth Poet Laureate by the literary group Urban Word. His love for poetry began in his early teens, ...

You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, "Adversarial Poetry as a ...