Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

Ashley is a fan of anything by Ann Patchett, recommends watching The Studio for a comedy break, and considers Wonder Boys the ...

In the stillness of dawn, just as the sun began to stretch its light across the sky, my grandmother would already be rising ...

Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, ...

For the first time, English-language readers can engage with the work of Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, a distinctive voice among South Africa’s younger generation of Afrikaans poets.

A Cleveland County woman has written and released a new novel set in the South that tells the story of a girl growing up in a ...

The reliably accomplished John Niven’s latest novel is The Fathers (Canongate), a witty account of parenthood and masculinity ...

Although folk singer Willi Carlisle now considers Kansas City home, it was a move to Fayetteville to study poetry at the ...

Essays on the Bard’s Art (StarApple Books), edited by Donna Benny: this gathering of critical essays and commentary brings ...

The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon’s, ‘Ogun’s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying’, taken from Sandra ...

Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), the Maoist revolutionary who was called “the primary theorist of the Black Arts Movement ...