STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Haikus, acrostics, concrete and blackout poems. That's what Mary Zanfini, English professor at Empire State College, has been teaching her students this past semester. Zanfini, ...

So many women carry deep emotional scars — yawning wounds from childhood, an early love, and other injuries that feel like they happened yesterday (and maybe they did). Fortunately, there's a way to ...

While going through a painful divorce, James Brandenburg poured out his grief and sadness into poems, some 1,000 of them. He later compiled those poems into a self-published book — “In Pursuit of the ...

On Thurday students read their most exemplary poetic pieces. Photo by Pixabay via Pexels. On Thursday evening, the University of Connecticut hosted the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, an organization ...

W. S. Di Piero never wants to hear again that his poems are intense. “You get tired of hearing certain things if they get said so many times about the kind of work you do. I don’t write poems that are ...

“Lord of the Butterflies,” by Andrea Gibson.(Button Poetry, 96 pages, $16.) Andrea Gibson’s unabashedly emotional poetry performances create communal spaces for audiences to feel through the pain and ...

Before Poetry Out Loud, I thought poetry was for skinny white guys with bad goatees. Now, however, I understand that poetry is all-inclusive. Poetry gives me an outlet, a way to express my feelings in ...