April's guest writer-curator for Something I Heard, Martin Corless-Smith, reads Charlotte Mew's poem, "I So Liked Spring." ...

Nest of Matches, the ingenious and savvy new book by Amie Whittemore, out from Autumn House Press, is full of such negotiations. As a mere reader unacquainted with this superb poet, I cannot say what ...

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt pours herself a cup of hot coffee. She takes a look outside at the scenery around her new home ...

On April 10, award-winning poet Dante Micheaux visited the Illini Union Bookstore and read a selection of his poems to an audience.

Writing Seminars chair Eric Puchner talks with a former advisee about why 'dark books' resonate with readers like Oprah ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman said Noah Madrano’s crimes were “profoundly sadistic and cruel” and he rejected as ...

Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...

"On the day of my wedding, I was getting my makeup done and found out that my soon-to-be husband was on Tinder — and he was ...

When the artist Tomáš Fantl was a small child, the course of his life was decided by the toss of a coin. He tells us the ...