Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us that poets are the beholders of ideas and the announcers of human experience's necessary and casual details. Poets sing the songs of their selves and of nations. Even ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Below is an example of Huck Gutman’s remarks on poetry that he sent to his email subscribers. Here, Gutman wrties about a poem by Anne Carson called “Essay on What I Think About Most.” It has been a ...

“Will the near future necessitate warning labels in front of all published material?” asks Robert Atwan, in the foreword to The Best American Essays 2014. Atwan is worried about trigger warnings, ...

LADERA RANCH – Resident Michele Ruvalcaba is one of several Orange County writers whose work has been published in the book “Interstices: An Anthology of Stories, Memoirs, Essays & Poems.” Ruvalcaba’s ...

Jul. 21—The Rev. Ricky R. McKinney Sr. has been pastoring in the area for more than three decades and recently wrote and published a book in which readers may see themselves. In a recent interview, ...

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems -- traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent ...

Clark State College’s Creative Writer’s Club recently hosted and announced the winners of its regional poetry and essay contests. Students in the Voices of the Valley Poetry Contest and third annual ...

Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...