The particularity of a poem, rolling around in the back of my head, reminds me how to look for repetition and snags elsewhere, to hear both text and subtext. I think I’m more perceptive ...

You must share the message with everyone — let them know your suffering. Tell them how dear and marvelous our freedom truly ...

Jane Muschenetz’s poems don’t look like the sonnets you remember studying ... Clearly this isn’t for me.’ Even though in my heart, since I was like four years old, I knew I was a writer ...

A blind woman's lucky escape from a fire in her home, the incredible discovery of a 16th century helmet and a girl receiving ...

I wondered this until I got to college, where my poetry workshop professor told me to consider this instead ... for our own experiences and learn to look for the small moments that bring ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

Laura Tohe, poet laureate of the Navajo Nation, has published books of poetry, oral histories and even librettos for decades, ...

"He, like me, wants a Pentagon laser-focused on lethality ... But there is another way to read the poem. Look at the character of Dido, whose sad tale prompted an opera by Henry Purcell in ...

It was not a book my parents read to me, rather one I found and was drawn to. Tempted by the vivid drawings, then drawn back again and again in the same way one cranes one’s neck to get a good look at ...

The first label I landed on before lesbian was bisexual, and I clung to the possibility that I'd end up with a man, and this part of me could be ... I read a poem onstage and had a vendor booth ...