Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge's "seriocomic" ode to Missouri includes plenty of references you'll ...

Poet, author and editor-in-chief of Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Karen Cline-Tardiff, of Norman, will be featured at Wednesday ...

In Friday St. Paul show, expect the talented group to take on the issues of the day without much care for who might be ...

Bound to elicit a grin is Ng Yi-sheng’s humorous Roti Chatter, a hark back to the Republic ... In the largest effort to ...

Durcan has helped to change our perception of what a poem ought to be. He’s a poet who makes it his business to chip away at ...

The indie-pop singer-songwriter makes her literary debut with ‘Eat the World,’ an insightful and introspective collection ...

An art and poetry exhibition centered on squirrels might sound like mere fluff, but there’s more to “Squirrel Shenanigans: ...

For amending Constitution One needs majority's crown Till then the h Can always water it down Bleeding hearts for the poor ...

Mic Check Poetry Fest is a two-day celebration of spoken word and its ... "The 39 Steps" combines the conventions of an ...

Mic Check Poetry Fest, Iowa’s premier celebration of spoken word poetry, is bringing big headliners to an event that fosters ...