For Camisha Jones, the managing director of Washington, D.C.-based poetry organization Split This Rock, poetry helped give voice to the experience of living with chronic illness.

Clubs, schools, day centres and other community settings could help to make health and care more accessible, new research let ...

Popular Colorado poet Andrea Gibson has died at 49 after a brave battle with cancer, friends and family confirmed. Arianna Huffington paid tribute.

Ableist and sexist tropes of disability in literature have changed to some extent, but there’s still a long way to go ...

As on most days, reading today’s news wasn’t an uplifting affair...' ...

About 35,000 Michigan K-12 students experience homelessness each year. Detroit teen Charisma Holly tells her story.

Former AFL player Brandon Jack knows all about sporting expectations and family conflict. But it’s writing, not football, ...

It was September 2023, and I was reading a poem I’d written, “Andy’s Attic,” as part of a play put on by Teen Hype, a youth ...

AIM Higher, Inc., a nonprofit publisher dedicated to elevating powerful and transformative voices, proudly announces the release of Authentic Embellishments: Fragments of a Life Saved by Poetry, a ...

Following the Mediterranean diet or a plant-based diet may help lower the risk of chronic in middle- and older-age adults, ...

The faltering mental health of pediatric patients with chronic disease is something health professionals and health systems should address with vigor.

I rarely used the word “arthritis”, even when strangers asked why I limped or what was wrong with my knee, perhaps partly ...