Join us as UChicago Magazine celebrates National Poetry Month. Visit us every day in April for a poem by a UChicago professor, alum, or student; a story about poetry scholarship; or another way we’re recognizing the “verse” in University of Chicago.

April 30, Tyehimba Jess, AB’91
April 29, UChicago PhD student Emily Yoon
April 28, John Wilkinson
April 27, Mahabharata battle scene
April 26, Rosanna Warren
April 25, Yvor Winters, EX 1921
April 24, Janet Loxley Lewis, PhB’20
April 23, William Shakespeare
April 22, Maureen McLane, PhD’97
April 21, Frederick Foote, AB’80
April 20, Stephen Stepanchev, AB’37, AM’38
April 19, Ana Castillo, AM’79
April 18, Harriet Monroe
April 17, Natalie Richardson, AB’17
April 16, Amy Gottlieb, AM’82
April 15, Campbell McGrath, AB’84
April 14, Yigal Bronner, PhD’99
April 13, Hayden Carruth, AM’47
April 12, Langston Hughes
April 11, UChicago assistant professor Rachel Galvin
April 10, Odyssey medal
April, 9 Mark Strand
April 8, Jennifer Scappettone
April 7, Lynn Xu
UChicago associate English professor Srikanth “Chicu” Reddy
I laughed at how so much that’s holy is left in ruins, but you couldn’t find the humor
Kin to the cold page and the bloodless word. Deliberately devised in metaphor, derived from language no one heard.
Photo of a statue of Tamil heroine Kannagi
keep the body busy. be a teacher. be a nurse. be a typist. But the mind was not fooled. Mitsuye Yamada, AM’53, on how she endured a WWII Japanese internment camp.
Peter O’Leary, AB’90, AM’94, PhD’99