And what is so rare as a day in June?” asked the nineteenth-century New England poet James Russell Lowell in an 1848 ...

Chelsea poet Joseph Harms releases TAPS, a decade-long collection of five poetry books. Explore his lyrical intensity, fictional narratives, and poetic reflections on mortality.

LEO BOIX is a prize-winning Argentine-British poet and translator.

Teatro Paraguas will present Short Forms, a special poetry reading featuring local poets Wayne Lee, Donald Levering, and Jane ...

There’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

Local creative Miss Mia Mac recently marked her first year as a spoken-word poet, performing regularly at the weekly Release ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained ...

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

The Whirl of the Waltz is the name of Rhyme, Glitz and Glamour are a moment or two Fairy tales in the Art of Living, called ...

Students from McClure Junior High made their way through downtown Western Springs, planting odes in front of their favorite businesses.