Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ...

Mamie Morgan’s collection, “Midsummer Night’s Toast,” is a wild, free, wind-in-your hair ride -- with a whispered warning of ...

It's the last weekend before Memorial Day tourists descend on the Wilmington area and summer (unofficially) begins.

Among the honorees at the event was Marcelo Balboa, a star defender who started every game of the 1994 World Cup, including ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

Salem poet Chad City, seen here walking in Longwood Park on Wednesday, writes on-demand custom poems. He carries with him a ...

In January, I wrote an ekphrastic poem, “Canopy over Milpas and Alphonse,” in response to Patricia Clarke’s photograph, “La ...

Writing poetry doesn’t involve physical labor. Authors like Joshua Walker spend long hours, though, often late at night, ...

To put that theory into practice, I teamed up with my friend Jared Bauman, built an AI-powered poem generator, and released ...

Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this ...

It was the French historian Pierre Nora who coined the term lieux de mémoire – “sites of memory”. He meant to suggest that places and objects can embody or contain personal and collective memories, ...

There are three main structures of poems — haiku, free verse and limerick. In this column, I will show examples of each type and explain tips and tricks on how to write your own. Haikus follow the ...