When Manuel Iris applied to be Cincinnati’s poet laureate, it was with the understanding that he would not be selected. That’s because most of his writing career had taken place in Mexico and other ...

"'Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles' is taken from a sign I found outside a hostel in Lijiang, China, a beautiful city in the Yunnan province. It was a sign with the English phrase, the number 2418 ...

Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. His new collection of poems is 'I’ll have it here' (This article appeared in Outlook’s Valentine’s Day 2025 special issue on love and ...

Natasha Trethewey is a product of the South, born in Gulfport, Miss., 46 years ago, although her father (white) and her mother (black) were forced to leave the state to marry. She is a daughter who at ...

Money won't buy you happiness. Even the very, very rich get lonely. So, don't try to make more money. Make friends instead. "Alone" starts off with our speaker doing some serious soul-searching. She's ...

It was a night without sleep, but it was a good night for Roberts Blossom. The 78-year-old Berkeley poet stayed up writing. The retired stage and movie actor, best known as Macaulay Culkin's lonely ...