When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

Where are the writers who work on the dock? Where are stevedores, the longshoremen? The pipe fitters? The electricians?” ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Timing is everything, the saying goes. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than on stage, when a ...

Read Part 1: ‘I Am the Bridge’: How a poem being presented at an African cultural event in Arvada was created by 50 people from different ethnicities and cultures In the days leading up to her part in ...

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive. When I was 12 years old, I was responsible for the death of my ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ray McNiece has taken his poetry around the globe, performing on tours in Russia and Italy, writing new material at Florida’s Jack Kerouac house, and teaching in Singapore. But his ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

It may feel like a lifetime ago, but it was only last year that Amanda Gorman was catapulted to global fame after a poignant recital of her poem “The Hill We Climb” emerged as one of the undeniable ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...