Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

We want people who are invested in poetry to be satisfied and engaged in it. But, while we don’t want it to be simplified or pandering, we also want it to be accessible to people who are not. I mean, ...

Proverbs are like miniature poems — rich in meaning and crafted with care ... Advanced-level proverbs often use archaic ...

It’s the middle of April, in ’Twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry ...

Poetry for justice Veteran screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar described poetry as the “language of justice” and “vocal ...