Former Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner writes about the inspiration she takes from a favorite poet, Williams Carlos ...

Writer Michael Salinger has some unexpected advice for anyone who wants to start writing: don't — at least not right away.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... It only takes one to make life more complete. A picture: One of my favorite pictures is of Sandy when she was three or four. I didn’t meet her ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...