The South Side native will serve a two-year term as poet laureate and receive $70,000 to commission new works.

This debut novel is a mystery in which a dictionary editor at Oxford turns to word-sleuthing in order to unravel a family ...

Pronounced “Old Lang Zyne,” experts say it started as a poem, and has since become a song that is now a staple in New Year’s celebrations.

Examining a song’s lyrics shorn of the music can highlight the themes that a songwriter returns to over time.

Barrett Kalellis, who founded multiple Michigan music ensembles, receives grand prize for "The Hill of Vision" at age 81.

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: POEMS syndrome is a rare, multisystemic B lymphoid hematological disease, classified among paraneoplastic disorders. Objective: The main objective of our study was to ...

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...

In our fraught modern world, poets are rarely celebrities. But celebrities sometimes get their poems published. Certain people (disgruntled scribblers) may scoff at this. What do Megan Fox, James ...

A single missing word in the 1902 poem sparks a deeper look at rhythm, dialect and longing Sea-Fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a ...

Months before Andrea Gibson, Colorado's renowned poet laurate, died of terminal ovarian cancer, they sat down for their final television interview on an episode of NBC Chicago's "It's OK to Ask ...