At the end of the day, her words invite us to be more than bystanders in our own lives. They push us to be intentional, to be ...

Yet one of many charms of “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

Probably every one of us has a friend, coworker or acquaintance who has uttered the following commonplace about ethical ...

Newport’s Ava Kelly won first place in poetry in the Phi Theta Kappa Tennessee Mosaic Literary Anthology for her poem, “The ...

For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

In a world where knowledge is often hidden behind paywalls, elitist communities, and vague explanations, the online group ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.