On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book Review’s poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published ...

East Central University professor, Dr. Ken Hada, has released his twelfth book, titled “Visions for the Night.” ...

Thanks to all the readers who tell me why books matter." Another writer of color, Justin Phillip Reed, won the poetry prize, for “Indecency” (Coffee House Press). The award for translated ...

Birmingham’s first poet laureate Salaam Green released a new book this week to coincide with the Juneteenth holiday. The ...

Marcus Lattimore, one of SC's greatest college football players from his time at USC, is now on a journey as a spoken word ...

Circular reasoning is normally condemned by philosophers, but in his 1841 essay ‘Circles’, Emerson proposes that not getting anywhere is precisely what we need to do to find out where we already are.