With many thanks to the host poets of Season Two of Poets on the Plains, we welcome five new host poets to Season Three. You ...

A 15-year incumbent is facing a challenge from a write-in candidate for the St. Lucie County School Board District 3 seat.

Wichita State’s creative writing program will not host the visiting distinguished writers program or Writing Now, Reading Now ...

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Across cultures and centuries, heartbreak has consistently produced art. After death, people write elegies. After betrayal, we write songs. After war, exile, divorce ...

On a Monday evening in March 1958, the poet Sylvia Plath wrote herself a note for the morning: “Must be up early, to laundry & steal more pink pads of paper tomorrow.” At the time, she was working as ...

To the poets who did not win: Do not be discouraged. It’s not you, it’s us! For this year’s annual Foley Poetry Contest, my colleague Brigid McCabe and I scoured through nearly 700 poems, whittling ...

Editor's Note: This essay appeared in Cognoscenti's newsletter of ideas and opinions, delivered weekly on Sundays. To become a subscriber, sign up here. There seems to be a theme month for everything ...

Local poet and welder Paige Savarese started the free, bilingual poetry workshop, Brighton Park Poets, in her dining room in July 2023 as a space for anyone on the southwest side to write poetry and ...

What happens in your brain when you read or write a poem? We listen to powerful poetry from you, our listeners, and uncover the neuroscience of why it helps us feel, process, and recover. What happens ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

Over winter break, I began writing poems. This was unusual behavior for me. As I wrote in one such poem, “When I first met the poem / I remember hating it more than the illness that was in my body at ...