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 ...

Love is God’s only commandment. Love is God’s only dream for us. Love is God’s only self-description. In spite of the lengthy sermons that Jesus gives throughout John’s Gospel, he only once teaches ...

The fourth servant song, Isaiah 52:13-53:12, is the most powerful reading I’ve encountered this Lent. It will be the first reading on Good Friday, and I’d encourage you to ask God for the grace of an ...

In these recent novels and story collections, authors use the conventions of genre as a launchpad to explore unsettling and ...

The author on the aha moment that led to writing about her often harrowing upbringing, why her father was her first reader, ...

Did you know that April is National Library Month (and National Poetry Month) and April 6-12 is National Library Week? In conjunction, the Ontario Community Library has organized ...

Poetry is a funny thing. Really, it’s a shape-shifter. I’m a little slow when it comes to poems. I can only read one at a time and can only do that when I have the time to really give the poem the ...

Kilmer recorded an album with New York City musician Mick Rossi, who has collaborated with Paul Simon and Philip Glass, Hall ...

Corey Van Landingham, a graduate of Purdue's creative writing MFA program has published three poetry collections. Her third, "Reader, I," explores the nuances of romantic relationships in conversation ...

Into their fourth year of war, Ukrainians living in or near front line regions of their country grapple with their losses and ...