Ekta Somera, a poet whose journey from isolation to community has sparked inspiration among emerging writers in South Africa.
It’s no secret that a strong core is important. Sure, aesthetics might be part of the motivation (hello, six-pack), but core ...
Gaia Tan, a 28-year-old Malaysian poet, who goes by the name Pim, has been collecting personal stories from the people around him, and turning them into custom-written poems through his platform ...
Poetry and song were originally the same art. In the ancient world, all poetry was sung or chanted. Indeed, it was often ...
A few minutes after six on a Wednesday night, the bar at Black Apple Cider didn’t resemble your typical poetry crowd.
A former prisoner has spoken about the transformative impact of poetry on his life. Will Pendray spent four years in prison but after his release he was accepted onto the University of Brighton’s MA ...
A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, ...
With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to ...
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Stephen Kessler | What I have gathered from coincidence

You won’t believe this, but Diane Keaton mentions me in her 2020 memoir ‘Brother & Sister,’ about her troubled younger sibling Randy (John) Hall, a poet whose chapbook ...
Little Rock poet and fiction writer Tracy Humphrey will be tonight's feature performer for Wednesday Night Poetry, at Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave.
Miriam Udel's "Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature" shows how stories shaped a Jewish identity ...