Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...

And while grief softens over time ... the poet's "first love" — her mother. The poem speaks of the special love between a mother and her daughter and how that love is reciprocal.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words - and that's an understatement when you look at the work of Dustin Nispel or ...

Becoming a mother having lost a mother added a layer of complexity I didn’t expect until the baby was in my arms, and I felt ...

Celebrities are opening up about painful events that occurred years, even decades, ago. Explore why trauma can take years to ...

The author on the aha moment that led to writing about her often harrowing upbringing, why her father was her first reader, ...

Author Kate Messner may need little introduction to readers of middle-grade fiction, but her latest novel in verse, “The ...

Sheri-D Wilson is a Calgary-based writer and artist of 13 books, four short films and three words and music albums. She was ...

Maria Shriver has shared just how painful the implosion of her 25-year marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger really was.

Shriver recalls the ensuing “self-pity party” that included “a litany of trips to various therapists, healers, shamans, and psychics” as she attempted to work herself out of the funk. That’s when she ...

Self-Help” by Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore’s short story collection “Self-Help” made me truly appreciate the art of prose.