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.

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

This weekend showcases the endless possibilities in Iowa City from the Mic Check Poetry Fest to special film screenings ...

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

T hey say a picture is worth a thousand words, but we know the truth: A funny Instagram caption can make a funny photo even funnier. After all, there’s nothing like afunny quote ...

“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 ...

Pedro Samper’s short film follows a woman who operates a cemetery in Colombia for people who die, mostlyVenezuelan migrants, without anyone to see their burial.

A collection of short stories exploring the immigrant experience. A reimagining of Sita's story as a fierce warrior. A ...

Gus, drives a bus, one of us” is the memory trick Pru learns to remember his name through, and eventually he becomes so much more than that phrase. Gordon Clapp’s performance is genuine and tender, ...

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 ...

She’s Always Hungry author on her dislike of ‘forced’ short stories, her love of Prague and the best way to order your books ...