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Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.
In a telephone interview Monday, Absegami softball player Alyssa Bailey discussed several topics, including her passion for ...
Franklin Abbott’s newest book, “My Ordinary Life,” is more than a collection of story poems. It’s a quiet reckoning with the extraordinary weight of recent years. With a gentle yet unflinching voice, ...
Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.
“Fragmented Youth: 7 Arts Latino Foundation’s Writers and Poets School Club Program, Springfield High School of Sci-Tech ...
The last thing I expected to do upon reading the first poem in Cornfry (Buckman Publishing, 80 pages, $12), the first ...
I wrote only one poem during my stint as an Alzheimer’s caregiver. Most of my writings were either straightforward ...
I’ve always thought of poetry as existing for me from the inner world and the inner life. So I used my middle name, Jiarong, and then Zhang, because it was the interior part of me, the things ...
A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... But whether or not “Recuerdo” is based on a real-life event, it breathes the air of reality — the sounds, smells and sights of a city ...
The role of Spokane poet laureate asks laureates to, putting it plainly, bring poetry to one and all ... agreed from the beginning about the “life-saving errand” of writing.
As a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside: You can read any old day, ...