Articles

On Play and the Creative Impulse

Joe Brainard's letters are playful, elusive, and hungry for art.

Words Without Borders cultivates global awareness by expanding access to international writing and creating a bridge between readers, writers, and translators. 

Voters cast their ballots in Chicago Reader’s "Best of Chicago" 2024 poetry categories

A poet whose multifarious fascinations included ornithology, classical piano, jazz, long-distance rail travel, and architecture. 

Translation as Creative Practice

 I often get the impression of living between two courses or two times.

a collaboration on ekphrastic poetry

Sometimes the whole duration of place exists in memory all at once.

MacDowell provides artists at all stages of their careers with an inspiring residential environment in which to produce enduring works of the creative imagination without interruption.

Presenting free poetry events, writing workshops, a new exhibition on the poetics of home, and more.

practicing a poetics of accounting

New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history. 

midnight murmurs of a brokenhearted nomad

In Mojave Ghost, Forrest Gander recounts his 800-mile journey into the slow time of grief.

Shout Mouse Press is a nonprofit writing and publishing program to coach young people from marginalized communities as they write their own stories for professional publication and broad distribution. 

I think of the importance for the poet of finding a place in which to cultivate reverie, a state which I link to revelations.

Suddenly I got why writers write all those books about the color blue, immersive as a dream.

Grantmaking Updates at the Poetry Foundation

Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking.