If you want to sell newspapers, a great man (me) once said, you'll NEVER mention the word poetry. I think our Managing Editor Rachel Townsend (much greater than me) would agree, but she gives me ...

Part 2 of our in-depth interview with Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, whose latest book of poetry is Forest of Noise.

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.

This week’s poetry connection comes from former Indy intern, Leticia Hernández-Linares, a poem published in her first ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

The first poem opens with a visceral depiction of pain, likening it to a form of paralysis that “blooms with gloom” and ...

As you make your way deeper into the gallery of our campus’ Fine Arts Building, 12 scrolls unfurl from the ceiling to the ...

In the excellent conclusion to his trilogy on chronic illness, Waldrep (The Earliest Witnesses) probes the nature of pain, ...

It is October. Everything is overturning,” writes Hannah Bonner in her debut book of poetry, Another Woman. “I pack a ...

Naomi Shihab Nye is this year’s winner of the Wallace Stevens Award, a $150,000 lifetime achievement honor named for the celebrated 20th century poet. Nye’s prize was ...

“That we are living in the Valley of the Poets, and it is North Andover for Ann Bradstreet, John Greenleaf Whittier for ...

In the summer of 1876, rebel French poet Arthur Rimbaud arrived on the Indonesian island of Java, enlisting in the colonial ...