While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

Tribune guest columnist Eli McCann recalls past holidays, when he and his sisters staged slumber parties on Christmas Eve, played cards and watched movies and, inevitably, fell asleep much sooner than ...

Oyo, Clementina Kezie is the author of Broken Reed, published by ANA’s Nigerian Writers Series. It won the 2000 ANA Drama Prize much to the surprise of the playwright. Winning the prize has changed ...

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

Before the school of hard knocks teaches us how to be truly mean, our insults are pure, chaotic poetry. It’s a world where ...

Preach Jacobs remembers his friend and mentor DeLana Dameron. The writer, equestrian and poet passed at the age of 40 in ...

A roundup of books — from children’s stories to poetry to true crime to home decor — to gift to the different readers on your ...

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

David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His latest book is “The Winter Dance Party, Poems 1983-2023.” ...

You have to give the same present to everyone for the rest of your life. What is it? A book. Maybe a Seamus Heaney. I like to ...

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.