“No one has yet to begin a life who will not end it,” Mary Ruefle writes in “On Beginnings,” the first piece in her collected lectures, “Madness, Rack, and Honey.” It’s more of a lecture on endings, ...

Vanessa Fortin Laundry of Legends II is part of a series of performances that begin with death poems. These particular texts become oracle making, death fuelled time-machines when they are transformed ...

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two in the ...

It's not a good sign when, on the way home after seeing a play titled as this is, one is trying to make up one's own Japanese poems. Here's one such attempt: "When you write a play/Do not call it ...

Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus was reading her poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” to students in a south Minneapolis grade school classroom in October when an impatient voice ...