The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

In his new book, English professor Michael Drout delves into Tolkien’s life and work while reminiscing about his own father ...

Nico Patino, a Southern California poet who hails from the East Coast, was once an extreme pogo stick competitor who left ...

E very October, when the Nobel Prizes are announced, readers receive a gift: we are reminded that literature is vast—vaster than empires, to coin a phrase. Chances are, the laureate for literature ...

December 18, 2025, marks the 85th Death Anniversary of Babu Soso Tham and to pay homage to the bard of Hynniewtrep land and poet laureate, I wish to pen down on the subject above. Babu Soso Tham and ...

Contributor Jim Schley reflects on the legacies of three Vermont poets and writers — David Huddle, Ellen Bryant Voigt and Baron Wormser — who died in October.

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

Ken Teutsch published "The Parable of the Sheep and Goats" in the same edition. Ken is a nontraditional student who enrolled ...

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

J.R.R. Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a world so vast it spills off of the ...

Born in Moscow in 1993, Alexander Listengort graduated from the Moscow State Linguistic University, where he studied ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson, the now-celebrated poet of Amherst, who was prolific ...