Today, Christian Winn shares one of his own works, a prose poem titled “Hold.” Winn is the author of the story collections, Naked Me and What's Wrong With You is What's Wrong With Me. He served as ...

Step 2: Commit to reading one poem a day. Read out loud whenever possible and read each poem more than once. Jot down the ...

To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do ...

For the writer Yanyi, poetry is everywhere. YANYI: I've written poetry accidentally while texting my friends, while getting really excited about something. And, you know, you end up going on a rant, ...

Poetry has mostly been a solitary experience, so it was a real treat for me to join in with the young children.

At the heart of Mahogany Browne’s poem “Working Title” is a question: how does a poet begin to address the killing of Michael Brown? Browne, who began working as a full-time writer in 2006, began the ...

A State College area student is one of four winners from around Pennsylvania in WPSU's 2026 Poetry Writing Contest. Evelyn ...