I just didn’t think poetry was for me. Not long after, while writing funny songs for The Rosie O’Donnell Show, I developed a book of song parodies called "Take Me Out of the Bathtub." ...

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The singer-songwriter's first poetry collection drops October 29—and Cosmo has a first look with an excerpt.

Poetry is close to my heart. I would be lost without its very specific magic, its ability to spark wonder and shock and to open up fresh vistas on life in God. But as W. H. Auden famously says in his ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...