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Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more! https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading

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Veteran Storytelling Across the Arts A community-centered conversation about how veterans use storytelling to shape identity, memory and connection.

09.03.2026 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series The Efroymson Creative Writing Reading Series at Columbia College Chicago attracts prestigious, award-winning fiction writers, poets, and nonfiction writers.

09.03.2026 12:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Conversation with Elizabeth Zaleski Belt talks to Elizabeth Zaleski, author of The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure You divided up the essays of this book into sections that gather similar material—“With Family,” ...

09.03.2026 12:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Elizabeth Zaleski Tallies Life’s Disappointments in “The Trouble with Loving Poets” The debut essay collection turns breakups, lost faith and literary letdowns into sharply funny reflections on failure.

09.03.2026 12:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This Cocky Stranger Is Offering to Kill for Me - Electric Literature An excerpt from WHIDBEY by T Kira Māhealani Madden, recommended by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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My daughter sent this to me from London. It’s clear she knows what impresses me.

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1472: The Road to Baghdad by Seth Brady Tucker Today’s poem is The Road to Baghdad by Seth Brady Tucker.

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e·pon·y·mous | "Bloodmercy" by I.S. Jones Talking with I.S Jones about Bloodmercy, the complicated presence of God, and cataloging the milestones of girlhood

09.03.2026 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

e·pon·y·mous: Reviews in Conversation: A Review of I.S. Jones' Debut Collection, Bloodmercy — Honey Literary Offering of Flesh & Dirt: A Review of I.S. Jones' Debut Collection, Bloodmercy By DeeSoul Carson In collaboration with the O,Word? podcas t, e·pon·y·mous: Reviews in Conversation is a co...

09.03.2026 10:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Medha Singh on Poetry as Argument

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Another Life I’m writing love on a serviette as mourners gather on a mound for the disgraced dead, still in grave-clothes underfoot—

09.03.2026 10:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Diary of a Bug Guy by Mather Schneider - Rattle: Poetry Mornings, I fill my 50-gallon tank with the death juice. It sloshes as I negotiate rush hour. Moth guts on the windshield. Spraying for bugs at a woman’s house, spooky how she looks like a friend dead...

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Our Lady of the Garden All this time, I felt like I had to describe / the things I did, and what was done to me,

09.03.2026 10:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Time Without End A short story by crime novelist Jim Thompson, based on his experience caring for his aging father.

08.03.2026 23:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The spoken word artist who's helping young poets 'say it loud' | CBC Arts Shahaddah Jack’s Say it Loud is a platform meant to inspire Canadian youth to use their voice

08.03.2026 23:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vladimir author Julia May Jonas: ‘We’re imprisoned by our obsessions’ As her debut novel becomes a Netflix series starring Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall, the American author talks about comparisons with Lolita, moving on from #MeToo and problematic authors

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‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

08.03.2026 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The best recent poetry – review roundup Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion; Rabbitbox by Wayne Holloway-Smith; Strange Architectures by JL Williams; I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken

08.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’ The Send Nudes author on rereading Lorrie Moore, finding Dodie Smith at the right time, and the enduring brilliance of Muriel Spark

08.03.2026 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woman Facts A woman is born with all the exclamation points she will use in her lifetime. - - -When cornered by a predator, a woman can swell to three times he...

08.03.2026 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

International Women's Day 2026 Our collections provide an historic overview of the pioneers and feminist movements that inspired change and improved women’s rights.

This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism.

Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n

#TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay

08.03.2026 10:18 — 👍 74 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 0

Poetry by Lucy Coats Matthias Ripp CC Episode I / raw nerves under super-thinned skin / malwired synapses / electric bone frizzle / fizzing fear bubble / maddened hamster brain / wheel spinning endless arounds /...

"maybe this world / is worth clinging to / maybe it is /
maybe I’m still here /
maybe maybe maybe I’m ok"

08.03.2026 15:12 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Why We Must Remember Women Writers on International Women’s Day On International Women’s Day, PEN America is working to free women writers from the rising threats they face around the world.

Around the world, women writers face risks because of what they write, where they write, or simply just *because* they write. On #InternationalWomensDay, we encourage you to learn more about women writers at risk, and read some of their words. pen.org/we-must-reme...

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