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 ...

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 ...

“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

The Clark State College Creative Writer’s Club has announced six winners and two honorable mentions of the 2023-24 Voices of the Valley Poetry Contest and third annual essay contest. Contest entries ...

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 ...

In the fifth essay of her new collection, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, poet Jane Hirshfield writes of a Japanese poem, “windows are the opening through which the luminous arrives.

Like her epic Iovis, which incorporates 12 languages, Anne Waldman's Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews & Manifestos draws on intersections of the foreign with the familiar, crossed with Waldman's ...

ANSBACH, Germany (Sept. 21, 2015) -- Because September is Suicide Prevention Month across the Army, the USAG Ansbach Suicide Prevention Program Manager held a poetry and essay writing contest during ...