Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ran its ...

For every stamp I’ve licked and locked on my skin. For every darling I’ve mailed myself to. Rubbing shoulders with birthday cards, tax notices, divorce […] ...

In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

In my sophomore year at Brown, I wrote a 20-page proposal for an independent concentration that I never submitted. It was ...

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

It is the season of love, but I find myself pondering about love beyond romance. My heart beats for the city that adopted me, ...

That Atuhairwe Agrace Mugizi’s short poetry collection Curera has healing properties, we are sure. It also holds up a broken ...

The weather has recently evoked the image of an oversized leather chair, a crackling fireplace, a rich mug of hot chocolate ...