Along with teaching at Five Acre, Bridge is also the Clallam County Poet Laureate. She spent her childhood in Sequim with her ...

Neil Graham's poetry about Mexico goes beyond the cliches, incorporating the sights, sounds and textures of life across ...

From projects written using very specific words to books penned without particular letters. A lipogram is a literary work in which a particular letter of the alphabet is intentionally avoided. The ...

The English writer Dorothy L. Sayers, for example, explores that idea in "The Mind of the Maker," and a recent favorite of ...

With the Thanksgiving holiday behind us and Christmas and New Year’s upon us, gratitude is at the top of the mind for many ...

On Halloween night, 1968, a flock of twenty eminent New Yorkers burst out of the door of Stephen Sondheim’s Turtle Bay town house. The group included the Broadway producer Harold Prince, the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Lullaby for the Grieving was written over the last three years. In this collection of ...

When a poem declares “The truth is that all or none of this is true” (You distance yourself from the truth), you know not to trust the illusion of either sincerity or transparency. It’s a lesson worth ...

If you’re looking for hints and answers for Strands for Friday, July 11, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues and tips, and finally the solution to the puzzle with the theme “It could be verse.” For an ...

Poetry is used all around the world as an important way to express how people are feeling and it is a great way of storytelling. National Poetry Day 2024 is celebrated on Thursday 3 October and is a ...