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.

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." ...

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

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

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

The character of Bigfoot first emerged in a surprising way. “The first Bigfoot poem I ever wrote was actually an anniversary ...

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

In the first issue of The Prose Poem: An International Journal, editor Peter Johnson explained, "Just as black humor straddles the fine line between comedy and tragedy, so the prose poem plants one ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...