A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

Also: Nesbitt will be signing books from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the NorthTown Barnes and Noble, 4750 N. Division St. Info: (509) 482-4235. Kenn Nesbitt has a new collection of poetry out, but this ...

Akio Nakagawa, a professor of contemporary culture at Shokei University in Japan, recently published a collection of sijo ...

Long rumored to have been in production and finally realized, the fruits of Jack Gilbert's incredible career as one of the most important poets of his generation, of any generation, have been gathered ...

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

Chaucer’s celebrates Poetry Month with readings by three local poets Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence; and Melinda Palacio at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 9 at ...