Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

Richard Kroehling’s documentary presents a mixture of poets’ responses to the Holocaust and argues for the importance of the ...

Mosab Abu Toha’s voice is smooth and melodic when he recites his poetry from his new home in New York. But when the Palestinian poet describes the people and the moments that inspired his writing, it ...

Reflections of a Jewish Psychologist” includes poems that transport readers to psychological and spiritual spaces, like ...

The following All Hallows’ Eve reflection from J.D. Robinson of Stafford who invokes the spirit of poet Edgar Allan Poe, in italics. Poe grew up in Richmond. Nary a dime to stay alive, Nary a dime to ...

This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...