University faculty and students celebrate how poetry, a practice in precision and restraint that slows us down, commands our attention, and imparts the power of words, serves as an exercise to sharpen critical thinking skills.

The inaugural event featured readings by National Book Award finalist Marlon James and U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has brought poetry to national parks and outer space. At the University of Miami, she spoke about the power of poetry in today’s world.

Stephen Narain, a doctoral student in the Department of English and Creative Writing, won a prestigious literary prize for his first book.

A University of Miami poet and creative writing instructor poses the creative arts as a medium to inspire empathy and an antidote to loneliness and the hyper-individualism of “vampiric” relationships.

Shelby Cunningham, a sophomore at the University of Miami, celebrated the release of “The Academy” alongside her mother, Elin Hilderbrand.

April is National Poetry Month, and while poets and poetry lovers the world over are celebrating the buzz for the craft they revere, for many the genre is a Rubik’s cube, a baffling, arcane puzzle.

A millennium before Tik-Tok and podcasts added an express lane to the self-help industry superhighway, “regimen sanitatis”—the genre of handwritten texts prescribing health and wellness tips—circulated during the late Middle Ages.

A University of Miami professor who specializes in Irish culture traces the roots of the popular holiday to Irish émigrés who fled the “Great Hunger” in their homeland to seek a new start in America.

As National Reading Month kicks off, faculty and staff highlight their favorite books and celebrate the magic of reading—especially novels and longer forms—to convey a shared sense of humanity and bridge divisiveness.