Poetry can help us encounter the mystery at the heart of the matter without being destroyed.

Through the eyes of author and longtime Oregonian Ellen Waterston, poetry is everywhere. A shapeshifting medium, it doesn’t always look the same. Robert Frost’s short yet prolific “The Road Not Taken” ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

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As University of Iowa International Writing Program director for more than two decades and an accomplished writer himself — ...

Poets, clergy, novelists, actors, journalists, short story writers have each stood beneath the airy gazebo and offered word ...

A Palestinian poet and Vietnamese novelist both living in exile reflect on two revolutionary writers who inspired them.

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Thoughts of Sterling uses vivid, thought-provoking language and words as pictures to navigate contrasts that define the human spirit—hope and despair, love and heartbreak, the beauty of a relationship ...

Desire/Halves,” the debut collection by Jai Hamid Bashir, brims with animal energy, the snake, the dog, the oyster, the deer, ...

New Delhi: Poet, writer and former IPS officer Keki N Daruwalla, whose magic with words gained him national and international repute, has died at a Delhi hospital after prolonged illness and a spell ...

The 11 winners of the 2024 AVBOB Poetry Competition, representing each of South Africa’s official written languages, were ...