Indiana author Rebecca Kai Dotlich writes about how a childhood spent collecting lyrics and words sparked her love of poetry.

Now that we have poems available for free on the internet, as well as seemingly countless poets to choose from, it can be challenging to find truly good poetry books. That’s why we’ve talked ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

Whether narrative, dramatic or lyrical, a local author utilizes poetry and art styles as a creative outlet and healing ...

I thought, oh, wow, this is actually a good Robert Frost poem. LIMBONG: All right. Well, can you read it for us? PARINI: Yeah. Here it goes. It's called "Nothing New." (Reading) One moment when ...

Behind this, of course, in the poem’s consciousness, is the idea of the word made flesh: “There are moments when the body is as numinous / as words, days that are the good flesh continuing”.

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

I still have a few of those poems. One (or a hundred) was about a boy, one about my little sister, one about death, and one was full of silly nonsense. None of these were good poems. And it didn ...