This week there’s a children’s picture book, there a 10-step manual for improving mental wellbeing, there’s a new anthology ...

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

As the lights came up in Somerville’ Thursday evening after cellist Seth Parker Woods’s concert, I remembered 2018’s Stave ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

As Valentine's Day approaches, t here are many affordable ways to celebrate this day. Celebrated on February 14, you can ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a valentine poem.

Kids haven't experienced true holiday magic until the first time they hear A Visit from St. Nicholas. That long-form poem ...

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

Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

The underlying self-disdain and critique are rampant and accepted as true. The poem illustrates that it is not easy or pleasant to be confronted by the mirror, which is described as square, metallic, ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...