A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue. Amanda Johnston learned she would become the 2024 Texas poet laureate via an afternoon cell phone call on an otherwise typical workday in ...

Guest columnist Gianna Somrak, native to Highland Heights, was a psychology and creative writing double major who graduated from Baldwin Wallace University this past December. After considering her ...

Step 2: Commit to reading one poem a day. Read out loud whenever possible and read each poem more than once. Jot down the "heart line" or “heart image" from a poem that resonates most deeply with you.

Poet, novelist, and public intellectual, Professor Syl Cheney Coker, takes a veteran’s look at Woman of a Woman, a book of poems by Funke Awodiya.ONCE in a while, a new voice emerges in poetry. Its ...

Poetry has been a healing tool since the shamans, who chanted poetry for the wellbeing of the tribe. In modern times, Freud recognized the genuis of poetry: ‘Not I, but the poet discovered the ...

Source: The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum / Public Domain Let’s start with an image. You are in a restaurant, at a bar, or driving to a beach with some friends. Someone says something funny, and everyone ...