Ben wrote his final poem in October of 2024. He never posted it because he took a fall in the garage and broke his wrist, ...

Good Grief events founder and facilitator Jill Rivers is committed to healing through arts, culture and community and has ...

Here's how to help the poemless: go to the poetry shelves in the children’s section of your local library. Grab a book by ...

What does a conversation between the Skamander poets and the avant-garde look like? What does a frog do in Białoszewski’s ...

Who Was Mary Oliver? Mary Oliver is someone who didn’t just write poems, she sent out invitations. That urged people to slow down, pay attention, shower love. Look at a wildflower, a dog, or simply ...

Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and inspiration can snowball.

She hoped to take that community feeling a step further. “Getting people together around poetry is an intimate act,” she said. “Poetry is a way for people to connect.” When looking ahead on her term, ...

It just so happened that that last one turned out to be a haiku — an unexpected treat, because I got to show the kids how structure sometimes finds its way into poems whether we plan it or not.