Create a game, get people of all ages involved, and make a habit of reading. Here’s what literacy experts say works best.

Harry Kalas passed away in 2009, but his recitation of the famous Christmas poem lives on. The origin story of Kalas' reading ...

This week’s poem, Mary Tracy’s “Legacy,” considers our afterlives in the long span of deep time and larger natural cycles. I ...

Jonah and Me' is a chance for readers to sit with poet John F Deane as he reflects on an immense career, a life lived in ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by heart – whether or not you remember what they mean – or you’re younger, and ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for most of its 11 lines. And then it bursts into flame. At first, the emotional ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

DICKINSON — As the year comes to a close, you may find yourself searching for new reading material. Here is a short list of a ...