Sonawane says, poetry unlike prose, is a durable vessel for truth. “A novel has a relatively short life,” he says with the calm certainty of someone who has measured time in decades of public service.

A Deeply Introspective New Book Blends Storytelling And Verse To Examine Identity, Emotion, And The Shared Complexities ...

Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus was reading her poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” to students in a ...

The Brockton Public Library will host a poetry event at 2 p.m. Jan. 17 in the Driscoll Art Gallery at the library, 304 Main ...

Is the person unseen because of a conscious choice of their own, someone else’s, a group of people’s doing – or just a ...

Sandra Cisneros’ writing has always explored the intersection of things: poetry/prose, memoir/ fiction, Mexico/the U.S., ...

In the early two-thousands, she did standup in New York, and wrote a popular humor blog, “The Bruni Digest,” in which she ...

The unsullied memory of unpremeditated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels.”— Patti Smith This is going to be ...

The last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots goes on display in 2026 for the first time in almost a decade. Deposed from her ...

If doomscrolling and anxiety spiraling have you entering the year stuck, writing can help. Here’s a beginner’s guide to ...

I’m a woman without a calculator. I don’t take off the underwear I was wearing, but I take everything else off. That’s because I’m too dirty to give it to you…. My dad was like that too. He’d give ...

Jefferson Community College is currently accepting submissions for the 2026 edition of the Black River Review, the deadline ...