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Beginning August 18, Smith will welcome listeners to “lean into wonder and joy and truth ... to find hope” with a curated poem each weekday

A form of emotion, intimacy, and focus

He was at home in French, in German, in English, in baseball, and in poetry.

Norma Cole and the poetics of place.

On the drawings of Norma Cole.

Notes on visual art and the body in Norma Cole's work.

Hub City Writers Project focuses on launching Southern poets into the national conversation while engaging and sustaining a large audience for contemporary poetry.

It’s as though the bridge does the work of re-enchanting Fayetteville for me.

A magisterial new biography of Frank Stanford chronicles a poet obsessed with death and prone to betrayal. 

Embracing ambiguity in names and naming.

Laura Gilpin is best remembered as the author of “The Two-headed Calf.” Who was she, and why was her poetry career cut short?

Young Chicago Authors helps young people discover the power of their voices through writing, performance, and publication.

Yannis Ritsos was one of the greatest Greek poets of the 20th century. A new translation reveals his powers didn't fade after a period of brutal incarceration.

This pond is inside me: as summer, as stillness, as childhood—as peace.

An Introduction to the folio.

On memory, oral history, and honoring elders.

On translating oral history into poetry.

Those who survived are trying to speak out now.

A quietly radiant and neglected figure in early modern Korean poetry.

On the perennial return to narrative.