Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...

For all the would-be wordsmiths out there, I've got nine books to read if you want to write poetry but don't know where to start. Pull out your favorite journal or note-taking app now and jot down a ...

The word “stanza” means one thing when it refers to a poem: a snippet of text, a line or several. In Italian, it means “room.” Poet Chen Chen combines those definitions when he writes, thinking: what ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-saying-798018/ "Musicians must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he's to be ultimately at ...

For years, I've devoted 10-30 minutes to journaling every morning. But in 2022, I wanted to elevate my morning routine to an art form. I wanted to have a complete draft of a piece so that I could ...

Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently Come, Thief, and the classic collection of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. Who better to ask: Why write ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Lyrics are often compared to poetry. Are they a form of "the poetic art?" Are they less "artistic?" Poetry has a romantic aura to it, whereas lyric writing seems rather plebeian (to borrow a word from ...