Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a ...

The ‘Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis’ poet shares the book that surprised her the most, the best thing a reader ever said to ...

A yahrzeit is the anniversary of a death. Jews tend to remember these things. We light special candles in honor of our dead ...

Emilie Buchwald comes from the literary world. Mark Connor from the boxing ring. These two Minnesota poets from very different backgrounds debut their new collections this week. And we start ...

If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in ...

Marcus Cafagña, a professor emeritus at Missouri State University, recounts the poem that emerged from his son's childhood ...

Watson will introduce his books at 7 p.m. Tuesday at SubText Books, 6 W. Fifth St., St. Paul, with Michael Kleber-Diggs and William Reichard, and at 7 p.m. Oct. 1, Eat My Words Bookstore, 214 13th Ave ...

When Swift told us, on The Tortured Poets Department, that she was no Patti Smith, she meant that she wasn’t a groundbreaking ...

The late James Earl Jones previously opened up about living with a stutter and how he spent several 'mute years' as a kid ...

By Belen Quellet Retired journalist and Falls Church resident Sara Fitzgerald, acclaimed for both her novel and biography ...

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien contains nearly 250 individual works spanning more than five decades, 70 of them ...