At the heart of Mahogany Browne’s poem “Working Title” is a question: how does a poet begin to address the killing of Michael Brown? Browne, who began working as a full-time writer in 2006, began the ...

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruneface” ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

Poems rhyme some of the time; oftentimes they don’t. But what distinguishes a poem from other herds of words is how a poem combines rhythm and precision to make meaning and move us: capturing a moment ...

Stan State hosted Alumna Schuyler Becker’s poetry workshop, where she discussed inspiration and advice when it comes to ...

University of Westminster provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. For many, this year’s Valentine’s Day will be like no other. If you are spending the day apart from your loved ones, and ...

The hardest part about writing poetry is choosing the right words. Use a paper or magazine as raw material to get over the first hurdle. By Leah Umansky These days, people are turning to art or poetry ...

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...

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 ...

I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled in fiction writing over the years. I hope to do more of both, but now I also feel called to write poetry. I enjoy the idea of packing big ideas into small ...