Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It ...

“Spring still makes spring in the mind / When sixty years are told: / Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, / And we are ...

Springfield poet Dottie Joslyn writes about using poetry to help unlock emotions people might have difficulty discussing otherwise.

Rize Simmons is on a winning streak. The Windsor High School senior and two-time state champion of the Poetry Out Loud ...

Paul Revere raced through the Massachusetts country side on horseback to warn patriot leaders that British soldiers were on ...

Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor and musician whose work is shaped by a journey that started in Ghana, where he was born, all the way to Jamaica, where he was raised. Dawes, who joined the staff at Brown ...

W. J. Lofton’s captivating and lyrical new poetry collection, boy maybe, encompasses his Southern upbringing as well as his experiences with being Black and queer. The Chicago-born, Alabama-raised ...

If I’m really serious about getting better, I need to get better,” said Luther Kissam V.  Cole Kissam, otherwise known as his pen name Luther Kissam V, is a poet and writer from Charlotte, North ...

Lorraine Hansberry, Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Bishop, Toi Derricotte, Claudia Rankine, Jericho Brown, and Charles Simic all receive ... your heroes / trust me.” In that poem, as throughout ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?