Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

Poet-turned-entrepreneur Stephanie Pruitt-Gaines shares strategies to help you heal from burnout by reconnecting to the creative outlets that once fueled you.

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Manhattan: I am writing to the city that has captured my heart. The city where poetry lives, beauty thrives, romance lingers ...

Glyn Maxwell's "Stargazing" embodies the essence of human love. Not flashy, boasting or indulgent, but simple, beautiful and ...

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It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

The Brixton-based charity has run programmes including, Mandem, Lets Talk, helping young boys to express themselves through ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...