Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Poet Rita Dove talked about her childhood, family, educational background, and career experience. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...

Why have male poets disappeared from modern literature? Explore how society shifted from celebrating masculine voices like ...

Retried EKU professor Jacqueline Jane Hamilton launched a non-profit call Why We Write, and helped compile the poems for 'A ...

Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals. You may not ...