When my father was living his last years in a nursing facility, there was a woman there who spoke no English. I don’t know how she got there, or anything ...

Poetry is often seen as an indulgence and/or as something reserved for certain kinds of intellectuals and artists. It can be considered inaccessible for various reasons, not the least of which being ...

Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...

Explore 8 powerful but lesser-known poems by Maya Angelou that reveal her depth, spirit, and poetic genius—perfect for ...

Colleges have been warned, for instance, that they will lose federal funding if they try to balance an incoming class with ...

In the book, The Worm at the Core: The Role of Death in Life, Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon Solomon describe this dialectical relationship between life and death with an introduction to terror management ...

The judgment was categorical. “Seventy-five years into our republic, we cannot be seen to be so shaky on our fundamentals ...

Clare is a Kildare poet originally from Westmeath. She achieved first place in Poetry Ireland /Trócaire unpublished poet ...

I was scared my parents wouldn’t let me study or write poems. That fear is what led me to adopt the pen name Jyoti Jungle. I ...

Joanna Broad-Reeder first met the schoolboy - under 18 years of age - while working as a supply teacher at Crewe's St Thomas ...

The poems examine the celebration and sorrow behind that concept ... Eskilson draws parallels between a horror movie antagonist and an unassuming queer person upon whom society projects fear; who, ...

The LGBTQ+ community has a long, sometimes fraught relationship with the horror genre; there’s a kinship in the Othering, in being feared and hated and cast out from society. CD Esklison’s new ...