The high church silence in-between poems is a lonely place to be as a poet,” Iain Haley Pollock joked to the audience in Cheever House, lifting the mood of those who had gathered for his poetry ...

John Contreras is one of Milwaukee's hardest-working typewriter poets. He will be at the OnMilwaukee Spelling Bee and ready ...

For years, Lee Tonouchi has fostered a growing respect and love for Pidgin, a language once reviled as lazy, inferior — or ...

He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentar ...

For those of us north of the equator, winter officially arrived last week. The early darkness and the chill in the air demand a change in our habits. For many, the season provokes an unmistakable turn ...

ARIEL MITROPOULOS JOINS US LIVE NOW WITH HER EXCLUSIVE REPORTING. MONICA, WE SAT DOWN WITH JONATHAN COOPER LAST WEEK. HE SAYS THIS BOOK WAS MEANT TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH, AND THAT NO ONE HAS EVER TOLD ...

The book, described online as "comical poetry," meant to "strip the pretentiousness of poetry in a funny and enlightening way," is filled with sexual innuendoes, foul language and references to drugs, ...

Ribollita from 'A Bowl of Goodness: Nourishing Poems with a Side of Soup' by Major Jackson Credit: Melissa Pasanen © Seven Days Earlier this year, the New York Times ...

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. With apologies to T. S. Eliot, December might be the cruelest month — at least for publishing. As imprints focus ...

Olivia Nuzzi’s tell-all book is finally here — and it paints a picture of obsessive love, drugs and bad poetry from the “worm”-filled brain of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is only called “The Politician ...