One morning in 2005, Grace Curtis was getting ready for work as she normally did. There wasn’t anything particularly special about that morning, although Grace admits her only child, a daughter, was ...

Six years ago, area poet Sierra Leone had an inspiration about how to encourage herself and other women who wanted to find time to write even when, with work and family obligations, it seemed ...

The same problem persists—e-books and poetry just don’t get along as well as e-books and prose. It’s those line breaks, poetry’s defining feature. The problem is a simple sounding one, but really ...

When Rupi Kaur’s second book “The Sun and Her Flowers” was released, my friend asked me what my thoughts were about the work. I hadn’t read it with the intention of never doing so, and when I told her ...

The form of a poem is how we describe the overarching structure or pattern of the poem. Some forms of poetry must stick to very specific rules about length, rhythm and rhyme. Poets enjoy playing with ...

Defining the word poem isn’t that simple. Basically, it’s any collection of written or spoken words that have some sort of lyrical quality, rhythm, and/or structure that’s less straightforward than a ...

Los Angeles–based independent publisher Unnamed Press has announced a poetry line devoted to “collaborative cross-media projects,” and anticipates publishing two to three such projects per year. “What ...