April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

In her wonderful article in the Mountain Mirror last month, Carol Lannon let us know the month of April is National Poetry ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Every April since its inception in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets, National ...

For the last three months, the new “Ocean of Poetry” reading series has helped to promote the art of prose and literature in ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

If you're having writer's block, some young poets in Morningside K-8 Academy might help get the gears moving. They recently learned how to write their own masterpieces about the uniqueness of living ...

Mahima Nagaraju Some poems come from words carefully collected over days and weeks, their placement in a sentence tried and ...

April may be, as T.S. Eliot called it, “the cruelest month,” but it is officially National Poetry Month, designed to honor ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

Maybe some folks who’d walked past the Max Ehrmann sculpture downtown pondered that same question. Many times during his two ...