A poetry form with Chicago roots gives local writers a way to express their opinions and reactions to the loss of beloved institutions. A form of poetry inspired by the news was born here in Chicago.

Across 25 state-of-the-art models, poetic prompts achieved an average “attack success rate” of 62% for handcrafted poems and ...

Jeffrey Brown profiles David Ferry, a poet concerned with making connections to classical literature. Ferry was recently honored with the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize as well as the National Book Award for ...

A CRITIC has unsuspected pleasures, — pleasures which only the wisest of the wise would consider possible to a person in his supercilious trade. One of these is coldly, if not doubtfully, to take up a ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...