The Juvenile Hall poetry program was looking for a way to share students’ work just as the county office of education was launching a magazine. The two needs aligned for the inaugural issue.
When words are all we have, poetry becomes a lifeline that brings us closer to understanding ourselves and each other. Here ...
Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a home poem.
Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...
The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind ...
Poets have long been drawn to ballet, and not surprisingly, they write about their favorite dancers and ballet companies.
This week there’s a children’s picture book, there a 10-step manual for improving mental wellbeing, there’s a new anthology ...
She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.