One day an ambulance carried off my half-paralyzed log of a body. Thinking I was dying, I slurred out two messages to my companion, Mariah: one for her, one for my kids. A mere five days later, I ...

The use of poetry for therapeutic purposes goes back to primitive rites in which shamans would chant poems for the welfare of an individual or the tribe, according to the National Association for ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Reading and Writing Project at Teachers College, Columbia University, is one of the most influential literacy educators in the country. She is the author of the ...

CONGRATULATIONS! Eleventh grader Eesha Ande, a rising poet from San Antonio, is gaining national recognition for her work ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/to-write-machine-desk-flowers-1700787/ We are halfway through April, National Poetry Month, so it’s a great time to release any ...

Last month, a new book of essays from the “Narrative Matters” section of Health Affairs was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and is available for purchase from the press, Amazon, and ...

April is National Poetry Month and in celebration the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs is seeking poetry submissions for upcoming issues of the journal. We are holding a poetry contest from ...