Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

Separation of poetry from prose affects revolutionary consciousness, and deliberately cleaves the imaginative from the ...

Three years ago, a young spoken word poet named Sarah Kay dazzled the TED Conference, earning two standing ovations. Her performance about writing poetry to entertain and educate has since received ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

Videogames and poetry haven't always gone hand in hand. We're still a long way from Master Chief breaking into a Coleridge soliloquy. But game developers Ichiro Lambe and Ziba Scott have edged us a ...

A poet has encouraged children to write regularly as part of a visit to a primary school for the national Young Poet Laureate ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The city of Riviera Beach hosted a free youth summit Saturday in hopes to provide an artistic and creative outlet by writing poetry. The workshop at the Marina Village was open ...