Diary-writers across history have expressed the sense of relief that writing from the heart can bring. Could English essays ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled in fiction writing over the years. I hope to do more of both, but now I also feel called to write poetry. I enjoy the idea of packing big ideas into small ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

"Poets like Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver and Adrienne Rich showed me there was a way out with words," writes former Mennonite ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-saying-798018/ "Musicians must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he's to be ultimately at ...