I Asked Him What He Needed” is USC professor Ed Madden’s newest book. Fueled by 2025 stories about deportation, the work comments on law and U.S. history.

Coleman called me up on the telephone and asked me if I knew where Po Biddy, GA was. I didn’t, but I was a little ahead of ...

Portraying the breakdown of the couple’s marriage through the eyes of the people around them, this deeply researched and utterly convincing debut is an astonishing achievement ...

Pavel Alling Peña circulated AI videos envisioning Cubans protesting and paramilitary groups violently rising up against the island’s government.

What I know is that I don’t want it to be poetic. The time has passed when my poetry was poetic—if in fact my poetry was ever poetic. My fate has always been to do something different.” ...

Do I try to have an honest conversation and risk blowing it up? Or do I accept that this is the cost of friendship in a divided world ...

I know Adil Parashar, who uses the pen name Aranya for their writing, in many capacities: poet, friend, curator, editor. One thing that’s common across all these personas is the innately polyphonic ...

Chloe Kim said the poem Myles Garrett wrote for her felt incredibly sweet and personal. She shared that reading his words ...

Keats went on to study medicine, but abandoned the career in 1816. “He gives it up, I think, because he realises what a good poet he is,” says Fiona. “Keats is a real lover of poetry and he has a real ...

The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.

It’s the perfect time for good news about top-drawer friends, Olympic dreams, and a venerable poet who crafts rhymes to bring cheer to others, and mend his lonely heart. And it’s always a good time ...

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...