DeWitt Clinton's new book is a collection of poems that he wrote responding to Chinese poetry. Clinton is a poet and a retired English professor from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Before his ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate ...

Modeled after Lord Nelson, one of the great leaders of the Napoleonic Wars, Character of the Happy Warrior describes the ideal fighter. Wordsworth weaves together the traits all successful leaders ...

KATE CLANCHY:One of the things that happens when you are a writer and you, kind of, KATE CLANCHY:say to yourself that you’re a writer is that you get more faith in your own process you think that ...

Many novelists, poets, and short-story writers have saved materials that capture the creative process and have preserved the way in which they crafted their work. The purpose of this international ...

Esther Grace Simmons is making the world a better place, one poem at a time. She often turns her poems into songs. "Teens Try to Prevent Crime in America" is one of those songs, and it currently is ...

Homeless people gather under the bridge for Night Strike, a weekly event under the Burnside Bridge that gives Portland's homeless a warm meal. Jakki Flansberg's poems are inspired by her and others' ...