Séamus Isaac Fey (he/they) is a Trans writer from Chicago. Currently, he is the poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine, and ...

It's easy to get wrapped up in the go-go-go lifestyle. Mary Oliver has taught me how to slow down and enjoy the view.

As an adult, I’ve come back to poetry time again when I found my own feelings too big to name or explain without help, writes ...

I love the Nobel laureate Soyinka for two main reasons: one, his works seek social justice. I love authors whose works deliberately seek to address social issues. Two, his versatility in creative ...

A year after David Harrison began the "Poetry from Daily Life" column, he has received funding to record the contributors ...

That’s the instruction of today’s First Reading, too: Maintain hope, and listen when people are speaking hopeful things aloud. “Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to ...

Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

When I began to listen to poetry, it’s when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all ...

Poetry lovers who crave Shakespearean-style sonnets and rhyming iambic pentameter have a new collection to pick up for their reading pleasure: Last ...

Sometimes, the right book shows up just at the right time. Our book critic encountered two such books this week: Water, Water ...

A poet, raised among refugees in New York's Washington Heights, confronts the ghosts that inhabited his childhood.

To understand Audre Lorde’s life and lasting legacy, the author chose to forgo linear chronology to instead traverse space ...