BOOKS: On stolen pink paper from the college where she taught, Sylvia Plath wrote some of the greatest poems in the English ...

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot ...

A Tyneside mental health nurse wants to highlight how writing can be a "weapon" against mental ill health - against a ...

He has written thousands of haikus and limericks about the news, he estimates. “The stories choose me,” he said.

There is nothing fresh or original here, no wit or zing, no pressure on language or form or voice or thought.’ ...

The poet and novelist speaks about writing for the marginalised, experimenting with form, and his literary journey spanning ...

A central element to MSU assistant professor Suban Nur Cooley’s tenure as the 2026-2028 Greater Lansing area poet laureate is ...

Poems are powerful, magical and mysterious. They show us life in novel ways. “A poem is an offering,” says poet and professor Julie Marie Wade. It can sneak up on readers to show them something ...

Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

As a young girl living in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Carmin Wong remembers that journaling helped her reflect on her ...

CHILLICOTHE— A lifelong poet and Chillicothe native recently won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her work "Ars Poeticas." Juliana Spahr currently teaches in higher education in California, but ...