When the Writing Seminars faculty reviewed Chris Childers' application for the MFA in creative writing, they shared what professor Mary Jo Salter remembers as "unanimous amazement." Occasionally, ...

Poems will mix multiple languages in “The Latin Poet’s Guide to the Cosmos.” Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a UCLA lecturer in Writing Programs, published her book in May. The book is a collection of 26 ...

Prof. Emeritus W. Ralph Johnson, a distinctive critic of Latin poetry and the renowned University of Chicago author of multiple books on Latin and comparative literature, passed away on April 13. He ...

Barbara Weiden Boyd is a big fan of Ovid, the Latin poet who died just about two thousand years ago. Apart from being a great humorist, she said, Ovid should be applauded for his brilliant re-working ...

On National Poetry Day, we introduced you to four of our favorite American Jewish poets. Now, for World Poetry Day, get to know three Latin American Jewish poets. There’s a surprising lack of their ...

The University of Montana Creative Writing Program is sponsoring a poetry reading by Eduardo Chirinos at 2 p.m. Monday in the Dell Brown Room of Turner Hall. Chirinos, an internationally acclaimed ...

ROMAN poetry begins in 514 (about 240 B. C.) with Livius Andronicus, who translated the Odyssey into Saturnian verse, — a work about which we know nothing that is interesting except that Horace ...

The Festival of Young Poetry 2025 - Special Session of Young Chinese, Latin American and Caribbean Poets kicked off in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, on Sunday. An event host ...