It’s not much practised, but there’s a strong tradition of how-to poems, from Virgil to Henry Reed. So this month it’s your turn to teach The question of what poetry is for is one that has as many ...

From Jean de Meun in the late thirteenth century to Christine dePizan in the early fifteenth, medieval French poets often aimed toimpart theological, philosophical, or moral ideas. To unify ...

Complex and haunting, here are two poems by French poet Philippe Beck, who won the French Academy’s Grand Prix de Poésie in 2015 By Philippe Beck and Nicola Marae Allain for Translation Tuesdays by ...

James Matthew Wilson is an award-winning professor of religion and literature at Villanova University and the author of two poetry collections, Some Permanent Things (2014) and The Hanging God (2018).

WHETHER we are to regard history as an analysis of tendencies or as a biography of individuals is ultimately a question, not of absolute truth and falsehood, but of relative temperament. If the ...

Eve L. Ewing is a Chicagoan first and foremost. The rest of her titles—sociologist, professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, poet, occasional playwright, Marvel ...