“During the pandemic, a high school poetry club of Indigenous students invited me to give a reading. I shared poems I’d written about murdered and missing Indigenous relatives, poems about ancestral ...
For the 2024 PAD Chapbook Challenge, poets are tasked with writing a poem a day in the month of before assembling a chapbook manuscript in the month of December. Day 4 is to write a nerves poem.
Christmas—a time of praise and worship of the One who came to give us eternal life! For centuries, through the creativity given by the Creator of all, writers have used their quills, pens, and ...
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 ...
At least, that was what I was picking up from the trip, as I’ve only started working here recently. One of the gestures my grandboss made to express her thankfulness for us was to write a poem about ...
Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...