The first Sunday of the month means free admission to the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Old State Capitol, Old Governors' ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

In January, I’ll teach another version of my favorite class, “Creative Critical Writing,” a graduate writing workshop ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter returns to over time.

It isn’t a typical open mic, there’s no competition, no pressure to be published and no ranking of experience. This is The Poetry Atelier.

How much can we truly know about the inner lives of others? Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Miles Leeson and Karen Leeder to reflect on the challenge of interpreting the minds and motivations of poets, ...

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

A writer is crafting poems to strangers based on the Twitter DMs sent to her and they're truly beautiful. SEE ALSO: Artist 'fixes' sexual misconduct apology statements, turning them into painfully ...

In 2025, we’ve had the pleasure of interviewing countless Armenian artists — writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and more ...