By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Spending time in nature is therapeutic. After hours of scrolling through feeds and drowning in notifications, stepping outside for a walk is like hitting the refresh button. And isn’t that exactly why ...

The 40-year-old Downtown library dedicated to poetry and acts of poetry reopened a year ago after a pandemic and a flood.

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Touching on subjects of grief, vulnerability, family, relationships, and world history, “A Real Pain” shows us the reality ...

I heard what she said but didn’t quite get it. Her observation didn’t sink in, and wouldn’t sink in until years later.” ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

The Miller Center for the Arts at Reading Area Community College has announced its spring performance schedule, featuring a ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

Apple has released eight chapters of The You You Are, the fictional self help book by Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale that's central to ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...