Poems are made for the express purpose of re-figuring the world. They have no other reason for being. In them, metaphors are completely at home. In poems, metaphors subtly materialize or dynamically ...

A small press imprint devoted to LGBT voices is giving ample expression to gay authors in small, nicely designed chapbooks. A Midsummer Night's Press in New York publishes LGBT poetry and gay studies ...

Today more than a third of Americans have some postsecondary education, and this fact is reflected in the poets included in the book The Face of Poetry. They are from all over the country, and they ...

Modern life presents unprecedented challenges to mental health, with stress levels reaching alarming heights across all demographics. The American Psychological Association reports that chronic stress ...

“Draft CX: Primer” from The Collage Poems of Drafts by Rachel Blau DuPlessis (2011) The first book of poetry by Rachel Blau DuPlessis that I owned was Tabula Rosa (Potes and Poets Press, 1987). I had ...

Earlier today in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to musician Bob Dylan for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." The nod to ...

When considering the artistic merit of great poetic expression, these wonderfully talented Chicago-area writers and Illinois poet laureates represent an eclectic and versatile selection of some of the ...

April is National Poetry Month! Who else besides me is excited and wants to try talking in haiku all month long? No one? Hmm, okay. One of my favorite definitions of the word “poetic” comes from Urban ...

As part of its centennial celebrations in July, Sharjah Public Libraries (SPL) hosted a literary evening titled ‘Contemporary Poetry’ at the House of Wisdom, Sharjah. The event brought together an ...