Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Videogames and poetry haven't always gone hand in hand. We're still a long way from Master Chief breaking into a Coleridge soliloquy. But game developers Ichiro Lambe and Ziba Scott have edged us a ...

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...