What sets spoken word artist and new Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley apart from others is her vulnerability and honesty ...

The effect of her poetry puts me in mind of T. S. Eliot’s description of reading Stendhal: Stendhal’s scenes, some of them, and some of his phrases, read like cutting one’s own throat ...

Lesley was planning to place the first line of the poem ... cried. One of the aspects of Frost’s work and character that Plunkett highlights in Love and Need is his spiritual side.

Poetry is a vessel for greater understanding in the same way that a voice is a vessel for language,” Price said.

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...

If you are not in love, return to 2. If you are in love, continue to 8. This year, I had to stop writing poetry in order to ... The insects tell me one day I will open my mouth in a ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first ... when he was playing one would-be biographer against another and maintaining a kind of zombie love triangle with his manager-secretary and her ...

When I went on vacation with my daughter, Blair said she’d love to come along but didn ... Any advice for a one-sided friendship I can’t seem to end? -- ENOUGH ALREADY IN ILLINOIS DEAR ...

"The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that ... falls in love with him. But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful ...

Around 1950, when he was beginning to write poetry, he described one of those lonely moments of ... up the hill, on the south side of the Catholic church. There is a photograph of the schoolboy ...

Guiding them through their relationship highs and lows, she’s gained wisdom on how people navigate love in prison and ... tend to sit fairly low so no one can pass anything. On their wedding days, ...