Some days the hardest thing in the world is explaining Chicago to someone not from Chicago. Other days, particularly when you already live here, the hardest thing is seeing the city clearly, as vast ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, here is a list of seven poems written by contemporary poets. These poems highlight themes such as sexuality, race and grief, proving poetry is not only ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing. By David Orr David Orr is the ...

Most people, I assume, have the ability to write a poem if they really set their minds to it. And by poem I mean adhering to the basic forms of meter and rhyming, when appropriate. There will be ...

In a recent conversation, someone asked, “What do you mean by tropical poetry?” What I understood by the term is poetry that lives and breathes the seasons, smells, and colours of the Indian ...

People said to the snowfall, We are going far away.. “Why does modern Malayalam poetry lack global outreach? Why is it confined to a niche local audience?” asks S. Joseph, who founded Emerging Poetry ...

‘Bombay poets’ have always reigned on the scene of Indian English poetry, and now a fresh voice, Rochelle Potkar, has emerged from the same territory carrying the legacy of poets like Nissim Ezekiel ...