Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician's “first love.” The ...
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The city of Riviera Beach hosted a free youth summit Saturday in hopes to provide an artistic and creative outlet by writing poetry. The workshop at the Marina Village was open ...
Jessie Reyez’s poetry reading at The Oak Cliff Assembly in Dallas will bring her closer to her fans, one poem at a time.
Poetry provides all these treasures and, even if we accept one of them, it restores our ability to cope, and our sense of ...
There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...
"Sitting with creative emptiness means accepting with self-compassion the times when you want to write and you can't," writes Alexandria Peary. "It means recognizing that every typed word sits between ...
Acosta is the first full-time director for CantoMundo (“Song-World”), a national Latinx poets organization based in Tempe.
Cat Russell, a published author and poet, discovered her passion for writing through NaNoWriMo. Russell finds inspiration for her poetry in everyday observations and keeps a notebook to record ideas.
GENESEE COUNTY, MI – When Jacob Keys, a 17-year-old senior at Carman-Ainsworth High School, saw the “Inspire” mural on the outskirts of downtown Flint, it reminded him of his childhood. The mural ...
A teenager has said it feels "surreal" to have been crowned as a young poet of the year. Ellanya Sivasubramaniam, 15, from ...
John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...