For more than 30 years, a small arts nonprofit in Missoula has connected elementary school kids with professional writers to ...

For 21 years, I was undocumented. While I am an American citizen now, this fact still remains the boldest and most dangerous ...

Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face as adults, I don’t get it. One answer, I suspect, has to do ...

Thato Mabelane's powerful poem, "The Pain Behind the Smile," offers a raw look at the challenges faced by many in Kempton Park, urging a deeper understanding of those in need.

On February 11, 1963, following a long struggle with depression, Sylvia Plath died by suicide in her London home at the age ...

Five years of Monet’s life in South Florida culminated in her latest poetry collection, Florida Water, which touches on ...

Author Matt Forrest Esenwine has some advice for would-be poets and creative types, and it all starts with a question: "What if ...?" ...

Donika Kelly wrote part of her new poetry collection, "The Natural Order of Things," during her first year of teaching, at a time when U.S. drone strikes in military conflicts were killing civilians.

Two Philadelphia artists – a photographer and a performance poet – combine their shared passion for observing and documenting ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

I did a geography degree, and there’s a circularity in the way things have turned out: I was reading poems when I should have ...