This phrase and sentiment has taken over the social media feeds and minds of many who are overwhelmed with the challenging obstacles that have been forged in the first half of this year. But one ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time for readers and writers to come together to share their favorite verses. Bustle has put together your reading list for National Poetry Month 2020, filled with ...

As many reports suggest, living in a pandemic, as bad and frightening as it might be, can be made just a little easier by poetry. That’s not surprising, as some of the themes that poetry circles and ...

A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

During this long time of sheltering in place, many of us have become introverts, by habit if not by choice. Deprived of real — as opposed to distant — socializing, if our health has held up we have ...

The devastating ramifications of the global coronavirus pandemic and tragic death of George Floyd have inspired some social media users to declare that 2020 is “cancelled,” though a now-viral poem ...

“Breathe Here: Selected Poems” by Ellie O’Leary; North Country Press, Unity, Maine, 2020; 84 pages, paperback, $14.95. Ellie O’Leary spent years providing intimate access to Maine poets on her Writers ...

April is National Poetry Month. And, as we celebrate an art form which gives shape and language to our experience of the world, it's worth noting that many readers still struggle to find the door, the ...