Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Educators are conscious of the value of exposing students to great works of poetry, but the teaching of poetry often lacks a ...

Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems from northern Illinois poets. This week’s poet is Auburn high ...

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the damaged areas with lacquer dusted or mixed with ...

As the scholar Emily Van Duyne, the author of a new biography on Plath, wrote in 2020, “No one ever asks when we will be ...

Four grade schoolers from Oak Park were among winners of the 2024 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards, a statewide contest.

By day, Santiago is a producer at a local Kansas City television news station but her passion is telling her story through ...

David C. Banks, whose phone was seized during an investigation related to his brother, largely avoided discussing his current ...

Oregon's new Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, recently spoke to JPR's Vanessa Finney about the state's literary landscape.

This blog post focuses on my approach to using poetry as an analytical tool in a recent empirical study. There is an exciting body of research highlighting the potential for incorporating ...

A late-blooming poet reflects on his journey of pursuing an MFA centered in the Catholic literary tradition, and how it fits ...

The tip of Massachusetts, where land gives way to sea, has long drawn the writers, and this weekend, the eighth annual ...