Next time you're shopping for Valentine's Day cards, read the poetry a bit more closely. If it's approachable, sincere and focused on love, family, motherhood, trust and/or gratitude, it was probably ...

Review of: Setting The River On Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania and Character. Kay Redfield Jamison. New York: Knopf. 2017, 560 pp. That’s the sobering message of Kay Redfield Jamison’s biography, ...

I should probably disclose that I’m not a huge fan of poetry in general, although I still found myself moved by N.P. Hunt’s Immortalised in Ink, which can be purchased here. The collected volume of ...

If social media and the advertising industry are to be believed, new motherhood is a site of self-actualization—one brimming with nourishing moments; sunnily swaying the baby in a neutral-colored ...

Fiona Pestana takes readers through an intimate, raw and unfiltered collection of poems that shed light on the importance of mental health. Photo courtesy of Fiona Pestana. Mold is a fungus that grows ...

Another wonderfully wild symphony of end-of-life notions and vivid imagery are found in Justin Karcher’s Just Because You’ve Been Hospitalized for Depression Doesn’t Mean You’re Kanye West. This is a ...

Bald patches show hidden things. An autumn rainbow. This haiku, written by Novi resident Morgan Breon, may be a fitting description for the times, as humanity has been stripped back to reveal aspects ...

It may appear that 2017 was a year of growth and good times for singer Jhené Aiko, but fans are familiar with the struggle that can be heard behind the singer’s hypnotizing hymns. Her latest album ...

Colin Parrott was excited about going on a Model United Nations trip earlier this year with his Huntington Beach High classmates. It represented a good opportunity for the 16-year-old junior. Parrott ...

Although Lionel Trilling observed in 1966 that “for American intellectuals of this century, the Thirties were the indispensable decade,” the political poetry of the Depression has suffered complete ...