True about Anne Sexton’s grandmother—but to extend Auden’s cantankerous question, “Who cares about thrushes?” (Thomas Hardy did, and now I do.) “Who cares about daffodils?” (Wordsworth did, and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The trajectory of Robert Adamson's poetic career is a striking one. From his beginnings as a juvenile delinquent reading Shelley through ...

There was no one like Nikki Giovanni. The Black poet, writer and educator, who was born in Knoxville and died Dec. 9 at 81, understood intimately that poetry was a spoken form of art as well as a ...

It is nearly four decades since poet Prathibha Nandakumar wrote her poem, NaavuHudugiyareHeege (1979, This is How We Girls Are), but even after hundreds of poems have shot out of her creative quiver, ...

A Baltimore poet is on the way to becoming the country’s most famous substitute teacher. Kondwani Fidel wasn’t even an hour into his first day subbing at Baltimore City College high school when a ...

We hear stories, we tell stories all our lives. But life is always more than what we think it is. .‘This more’ is the mainstay of creative expression. Our stories are as ever present as our breath.