Jacinta White, a poet in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started the Word Project as a way to help youth tell their stories through poetry. She conducts workshops designed to bridge social divisions ...

Came the Lightening is a collection of “twenty poems for George.” It will include photos of them and their gardens at Friar Park. Family friend Martin Scorsese calls it “a work of poetic autobiography ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

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 ...

Separation of poetry from prose affects revolutionary consciousness, and deliberately cleaves the imaginative from the ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The city of Riviera Beach hosted a free youth summit Saturday in hopes to provide an artistic and creative outlet by writing poetry. The workshop at the Marina Village was open ...

Is there something wrong with writing poems about writing poems? And if so, what? My friend Richard Howard was the first person who told me he didn’t approve of that subject, but since he said it ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There are innumerable blogs dedicated to posting prose and poetry ...

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 ...