STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Haikus, acrostics, concrete and blackout poems. That's what Mary Zanfini, English professor at Empire State College, has been teaching her students this past semester. Zanfini, ...

So many women carry deep emotional scars — yawning wounds from childhood, an early love, and other injuries that feel like they happened yesterday (and maybe they did). Fortunately, there's a way to ...

On Thurday students read their most exemplary poetic pieces. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels. On Thursday evening, the University of Connecticut hosted the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, an organization ...

A native of West Virginia, local poet Barbara Marie Minney writes personal and emotional poetry that captures what it’s like to “live her truth” as a transgender woman. She began her transition to ...

("What Happens" by Hilda Raz, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 134 pages, $14.95). These are emotionally taut poems, created by the poet to share her self or, perhaps, her many selves with ...

Before Poetry Out Loud, I thought poetry was for skinny white guys with bad goatees. Now, however, I understand that poetry is all-inclusive. Poetry gives me an outlet, a way to express my feelings in ...

At the 44th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2025, held under the theme “Between You and a Book,” ...

In his “American Notes” in 1842, Charles Dickens told the world about his visit to the new model factory city of Lowell and its young women mill workers whose poems, stories, and essays were being ...

If you are at all familiar with the movies of madman director Alejandro Jodorowsky — like the ’70s cult hits “El Topo” or “The Holy Mountain,” or his aborted effort to adapt Frank Herbert’s “Dune” — ...