I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

These days, it is not enough to be a poet. One must also be an ambassador, an interpreter, a carnival barker for a genre too often ignored. Three new paperbacks -- written by poets, naturally -- make ...

A small museum in rural Mayes County is once again inviting Oklahomans of all ages to use their written words to describe ...

MONTEVIDEO, Minn. - Two Montevideo brothers have taken on a challenge as big as getting kids to eat their vegetables. Which is kind of how they describe their goal of introducing regular folks to ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

Pictures can be poems and vice versa: they're feelings captured in a phrase, a stroke, or an image. Leonardo da Vinci said, "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting ...

The past two COVID years, characterized by limited interactions and confinement to our homes, have only underscored the extent to which ours has become a culture of spectatorship. Unlike the dog in ...

Ben Neideigh, of Brickerville, didn’t expect to make good on his goal to write poems for a year straight. A handful of Facebook friends liked and commented under the 2014 announcement. There, he ...