Using language to translate an experience into words is one of the highest levels of abstraction that we know as humans. Using the power of visual metaphor through poetry is able to get to deeper ...

Wild Women began as a collection of poems by female mystics from across the country, and later expanded to include male poets who also channelled female voices in hymns to Kirshna, exploring how this ...

Earlier this month, University of Minnesota graduate student torrin a. greathouse won a major award from Poetry, a leading monthly poetry magazine, for her poem “On Confinement.” The poem, which was ...

January Gill O'Neil has worked hard to get where she is today. The associate professor of English at Salem State University discusses that reality in a poem, "I Slept in John Grisham's Bed," which ...

Poet and writer Owen Sheers is to present a new six-part series exploring poems that are important to British culture for BBC Four. Each programme in the series, Lines In The Landscape - Six Poetic ...

One might find this silly, but each time I started a poem in this collection, I would look up at the sky and take Anandibai’s permission, asking her ‘what would you like me to say?’” poet and writer ...