Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

When Edward Hirsch was born, his aunt sobbed at how “strange” he looked. Everyone else said he looked like his aunt.

Poems are selected by Poetry Editor Lupe Mendez, the 2022 Texas poet laureate and author of Why I Am Like Tequila. To submit a poem, please send an email with the poem attached to poetry ...

Press Release - 'Your little heart ... could not endure.' Born with a serious heart condition, seven-year-old Rahaf suffered cardiac arrest after being rescued from a boat in distress.

BEHIND THE WALLS of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, incarcerated individuals are writing powerful narratives to share with the world about childhood trauma. It was a first-of-its-kind graduation on ...

You read her and you feel heard and understood. The Story of Eve: Selected Poems, Zehra Nigah, translated from the Urdu by Rakhshanda Jalil, Speaking Tiger Books.

Dear Children of the Tomorrow, in sorrowed verse we write, To pen our deep apology beneath the failing light. We've ravaged Eden's gardens, and scarred her innocent face, And left a fractured legacy ...

In ‘Poems and Pain,’ the third episode of ‘Joko Anwar’s Nightmares and Daydreams,’ a struggling novelist tries to pen a sequel to an older work only to be pulled into a series of mysterious blackout ...