I was never a gangster, I never sold drugs, I never carried a gun... I worked every day since the age of fifteen. I knew my virtues couldn't save me.

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

Frank Stanford, who killed himself at age 29, died far too young. Thanks to writer James McWilliams, the legendary Arkansas poet's short but colorful life is now documented in a monumental biography.

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

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

Miro Remo’s hybrid doc presented at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild,’ shows hermit twins who share ...

Ohio Wesleyan University Professor Laurel Anderson has won a 2025 Pushcart Prize, widely considered one of publishing’s most ...

The writer recommends four books about the nuances of family life.

Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

At "Voices for Palestine" at Hed Hi Studio, the Charleston community gathered to uplift Palestinian culture through poetry, ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...