Ally Ang sparks up this city with a distinctively queer, raucous energy that’s nerdy, enthusiastic, genuine, and joyful.

His luck seems to change when he gets a gig teaching poetry in a high school and meets Yurlady (Rebeca Andrade), a teenager ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego. What unfolds is a dreamlike journey through memory, passion, and everything they created together — ...

Matthew Coker, visiting assistant professor, is teaching a course on Old Norse II, while William Quinn, Distinguished Professor, is teaching a course on the Middle English Lyric.

New collections include Sean O’Brien imagining Apollo in Newcastle, Michael Symmons Roberts observing decay in nature and two ...

Bird photography is interesting and provides insight into bird behavior, identification features, color and more.

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black Americans at the turn of ...

The Persè owt off Northombarlonde, and avowe to God mayd he That he wold hunte in the mowntayns off Chyviat within days thre, ...

In a very divisive, violent world, we could all use more peace, love and understanding, and Rock Island’s Rita Melissano is ...

Hugo Shirley enjoys a great artist’s musings on the art of song and singing: ‘The personal nature of Gerhaher’s thoughts is ...

Physicists and astronomers from the University of Texas at Arlington have used advanced astronomical software to accurately date lyric poet Sappho's "Midnight Poem," which describes the night sky over ...

In a preface to the collection Contemporary Catholic Poetry: An Anthology, the editors April Lindner and Ryan Wilson discuss their criteria for measuring, more or less, what kind of Catholic a poet ...