“During the pandemic, a high school poetry club of Indigenous students invited me to give a reading. I shared poems I’d written about murdered and missing Indigenous relatives, poems about ancestral ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...
While we're likely all familiar with quite possibly the most famous Halloween poem for kids — yes, I'm talking about the "trick or treat, smell my feet..." one — there are actually quite a few ...
Though the name of the form may appear to be a contradiction, the prose poem essentially appears as prose, but reads like poetry. In the first issue of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor ...
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother.” ...
Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, said it has observed with dismay, the ways, manners and boastful tendencies of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The human rights association ...
It's Christmas Eve and one of Santa's reindeers, Dave, is FED UP. He's stuck behind boastful Rudolph again and a fart-in-the-face is the LAST STRAW. In the commotion, Santa crash lands on the roof of ...
While Democrats engage in the traditional rite of second-guessing, the ex-President and his G.O.P. radiate overconfidence.