On a dark Monday night, the dazzling bulb lights hanging from the ceiling of Midnight Coffee shone through the streets of ...

Poetry and song were originally the same art. In the ancient world, all poetry was sung or chanted. Indeed, it was often ...

Jewel Rodgers symbolized many milestones when she became Nebraska’s state poet earlier this year. The first Black state poet.

Poets are NOT wasting your money. When I watched the governor’s Jacksonville press conference on wasteful spending in our state, I was shocked to hear Florida’s CFO Blaise Ingoglia mock and deride the ...

We asked the 'Nymph' author to tell us about the titles that she thinks unfold like a movie, or tell her favorite Hollywood ...

When you grow up as the middle child of Fred and Barbara Kalema, the closest you’ll ever get to creative expression is a ...

To celebrate 20 years of The Skinny we look ahead, presenting our Next Generation of Scottish Writers: 12 poets, novelists ...

A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked ...

Ingmar Bergman spareness, your love of astrological signs, fluted lines, specific and sharp as stalactites in the cave of ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

If you were at this year’s edition of the annual Quramo Festival of Words, you will marvel over how powerful and impactful ...

Tony®, EMMY® and five-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist Josh Groban hosted his annual ...