Poetry

5+ hour, 3+ min ago   (313+ words) This year’s longlist features fiction, nonfiction, novels-in-verse, and a picture book. The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature: A. Chan, The Celestial Seas. Viking Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random…...

32+ min ago   (135+ words) What made you want to take on this project? What did the process look like for dividing the work? Beyond Palestine, the novel’s geography touches Aleppo and Tangier. How did you handle multiple Arabic-speaking cultures within one text? Did the…...

19+ hour, 13+ min ago   (421+ words) A moving posthumous collection from award-winning poet Curt G. Curtin,?Weaving Science and Soul? blends scientific imagination, spiritual reflection, nature, grief, love, and the timeless human search for meaning.,,,,?Weaving Science and Soul,? a profound new poetry collection by Curt G. Curtin,…...

9+ hour, 58+ min ago   (209+ words) “The Bitter Season” by Tami Hoag “The Hospital” by Brian Alexander “Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health.” Join Brian Alexander at the community hospital in Bryan, Ohio, as it fights not only for the survival of its…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (182+ words) In the early twentieth century, during the age of modernism, poetry was regarded as a noble and pure art form, elevated above and detached from the realities of...

9+ hour, 11+ min ago   (237+ words) Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 290 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Young People’s Literature…...

5+ hour, 34+ min ago   (288+ words) You don’t have to have it all figured out. Let’s explore what inspires you - together. Headliners include MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “There’s Always This Year” and the 2026 Weston International Award for…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago   (447+ words) Among the two-dozen poets who will be presenting their work at this year’s Petaluma Poetry Walk is Sonoma County’s newly installed poet laureate, Claire Drucker. As a participant, she will join a long line of poet laureates who’ve taken part…...

4+ hour, 28+ min ago   (243+ words) Wednesday | September 16, 2026 | Dhaka Imtiaz Mahmud wrote a poem against the Israeli aggression in Gaza, Palestine. The poem, titled ‘Footnote’, has also gained a lot of readership. The line ‘Even if someone cries, I write a footnote/ You flower, you become…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago   (277+ words) Everything about Federico García Lorca arouses fascination. His life, his work, his symbolic universe, his love affairs, his death… However, there were also researchers, such as Andrew A. Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Spanish Literature at the University of Virginia, and…...