Willie Nelson's songwriting journey has been a longtime in the making, and it stared when he wrote his first poem at just six ...

If there’s one conviction that has followed Michelle Bitting throughout her life, it’s that “good things can come from ...

April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life - no shade. But because of ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

Kenyan poet Odhiambo Kaumah blasted man pirating his book Let the Old Man Speak. Kauma vowed to release official digital copy ...

DEAR READERS: Wishing you and your families a very happy Easter and Passover. Spring is a time to get outdoors and play. It ...

Paul Revere raced through the Massachusetts country side on horseback to warn patriot leaders that British soldiers were on ...

John Loveday spent his boyhood in Old Buckenham, near Attleborough, and always felt a special relationship with the village and the friends and characters he knew from his youth. His 2019 memoir, The ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

The watch the watchman, Death will keep And man in amnesty may sleep. The world is still, for she is old And many’s the bead of a life she’s told. All the strife of flesh that dies.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book ... The real torments have been so glazed over, many poems resemble old paintings lost beneath a dozen layers of varnish. What does penetrate ...