These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

While Kristen Stewarts turns ‘The Chronology of Water’ into a movie, its author revisits her past in a new memoir, ‘Reading ...

Flickr My pal and fellow Tartan writer, Ian Giles, recently wrote an article about “why everyone should make bad drawings.” Despite my being artistically inept and generally ...

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War ...

Riley Asher-Stalbaum embodies poetry in motion. Whether during her childhood, when she would sit trackside to watch races, or ...

Azerbaijanis in Iran, like many other non-Persian ethnic minority groups living under the Islamic Republic, face repression ...

Thank You for Leaving is a heartfelt poetry collection by Rithvik Singh that delves into love, loss, and healing. Through ...

I invite any Jewish or Israeli poet who has not delved into contemporary Palestinian poetry to step behind enemy lines to read these and other poets. Reading them means experiencing not only the ...

On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

We’re taught to tear poetry apart -- until its true intentions are lost somewhere among technical jargon and cryptic symbolism. Reading poetry for fun often becomes intimidating, too scholarly ...

The event featured a reading by poet and lecturer Cintia Santana, as well as brief presentations by a panel of graduate ...