Acclaimed San Antonio writer Naomi Shihab Nye talks about the “clarifying” power of poetry and why it’s needed in turbulent ...

In Jan Donley’s class at Berklee, her students study literature that centers on loss. Loss can make us sad, but it can also help us heal, Donley writes. In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, ...

Met at eighteen, in translation, they showed me I wasn’t alone in love’s thrashings ... The gift of songs and poems and ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Inspiring writing and poetry in Maine. That's the goal of a statewide project aiming to help foster stronger communication in communities.

Like, how did shoveling compost lead me to love? Bottle rockets to guilt?" Some earlier poems began with Walquist reading the news — and reading their surroundings, no doubt — then engaging ...

Today, she’s paying tribute to the late great Kris Kristofferson with a cover of “Help Me Make It Through the Night.” Unfortunately, fans won’t be able to find Wilson’s version of the ...

"I also write essays and I write prose, mostly nonfiction. I think that poetry for me has been a place where exploring a lot of the more internal and personal things feels more natural or just ...

It was a caste system that she was accustomed to, and she talks to me in a very condescending manner, like “the help,” when I don’t do things right. My MIL is wealthy (but acts vulnerable ...

They take over everything to help me find a bit of social energy. Jane was awarded her work ill-health pension, ESA, and PIP and uses the money on a cleaner and gardener. She lives alone and far ...

The wait to release the poetry collection may have been long, but the journey to where she is now took even longer, Shriver explained in the essay. “It’s taken me a really long time to get to ...