NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

Ever write something, then lose it and wish you could remember? When I went to Mohave Community College years ago, I wrote a ...

Ever wondered why the people who hurt us stay with us? In this post, I’ll discuss how pain shapes us and how we can turn it into a powerful force for healing and growth.

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

Poet-lyricist Vairamuthu has claimed that his novel Kallikaattu Ithikasam (The Epic of Kallikkadu) deserves a Nobel Prize. Speaking at ‘Vairamuthiyam’, an inter ...

My grandparents emigrated from Counties Sligo, Limerick, and Cork. Fittingly, the first book I took out of the children’s ...

Children don’t even read anymore. Omowunmi is trying to take over to see what can be done about it. People don’t seem to know ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

Loyola's Social Justice Week invited poet Shivani Gupta to instruct using the power of the pen to combat injustice.

In honor of Women's History Month, we asked booksellers across five local woman-owned bookstores to share their favorite ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

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