Lucero, 67, was laid to rest on Friday after a celebration of life at the Cortez Recreation Center. Rather than flowers, his ...

Here is a volume not striking for its brilliant versification, but outstanding as the creations of a poet who will “drink life to the lees”. He toasts the joys of living with a poem as ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

Having jotted down the iambic stanzas on the chopping board and collected the veggies alive from the realms of metaphors that ...

Famous faces such as Queen Elizabeth II and Oprah Winfrey have shared pearls of wisdom over the years, here are some of our ...

Portuguese native Joe Correia, a Hot Springs poet and photographer, will be the featured poet for Wednesday Night Poetry, at ...

Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...

Jean Stimmell is a retired stone mason and psychotherapist living in Northwood. He blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com and ...

If reading short stories offered an efficient way to forget the world I was living in, reciting a poem gave me a different ... his funny-sad excavations of life under capitalism into unlikely ...

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

“Original Sins,” “Strike,” “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” and “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.” ...