This Q&A is an installment of Houston Landing’s Who are HOU? series that aims to tell stories celebrating the melting pot of ...

Through my work with young people, I've developed concrete ways to connect with kids who are hurting. Here are just a few of ...

You have edited Yaraana, India’s first anthology of gay writing. What was the experience like? Hoshang Merchant: I will take ...

Let me begin this essay with an open confession – by “open confession” I mean my saying it loud here about writing or speaking about ...

"All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy," Durham poet Bridget Bell's debut collection, comes out on February 4.

Abigail “Abby” Drumm was ecstatic about winning the high school’s annual poetry competition. However, this isn’t the first ...

The world we live in is a wasteland of words, but reading poetry reminds us that language can be used with precision and ...

Republic Day in India is celebrated on January 26. This day marks the adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1950.

On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the victims of the Nazi Holocaust in 1940s Europe and all those affected by later ...

In the table read with the whole cast, I kind of just read it without any emotion and I do remember the director saying, ‘She’ll be more emotional next time,’" she said.

In a scene from a new documentary about spoken word poet Caleb Rainey, he reads from his poem “Look, Black Boy,” which also is the title of his debut book and first album. “Remember ...

I remember, as a student, it felt like a test, when I was reading or more properly looking at modernist poetry and understanding nothing, because I didn’t know what it would mean to understand a ...