PLATTSBURGH — New York times bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner’s novel-in-verse,” The Trouble with Heroes” drops April 29. Signed copies will be in stock on release day at Bookstore ...

One summer. 46 peaks. A second chance to make things right.” Kate Messner’s novel-in-verse “The Trouble with Heroes” is about a boy, a dog, and the healing power of nature. The boy, Finn Connelly, is ...

An amateur poet, Shaffer may have been attempting to hone his craft: He jots a few rather forced and flowery nature poems in the notebook’s pages ... popular on online hiking sites and perhaps ...

These historical truths energize Nzadi Keita’s stunning new collection of poems about a “first gen North-born” young woman raised in a working-class Black family in Philadelphia in the time of civil ...

In Kate Messner’s novel, a hiking challenge in the Adirondacks offers a way for a teenage boy to make up for an act of ...

The epigraph to the book is an annoying and dismissive comment by an editor at a major magazine that says he’s completely uninterested in poems about mothers or poems with the word mother in them.

Poems are vehicles of meaning and feeling. I go back to Frank O’Hara’s formulation in “Personism.” He says, “The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages,” and I think ...

LIONS BAY - In a story that moved Tuesday about a teenager who died while hiking in Lions Bay, B.C., The Canadian Press quoted the RCMP as saying the teenager was 16. However, police now say the ...

Kate Messner’s “The Trouble With Heroes” charts Finn’s hiking misadventures in the form of the short poems he submits for his overdue English project. His playful experimentation with ...

Over 500 poems were read by Ariel Gordon and Charlene Diehl (of Plume Winnipeg) from more than 100 submissions; all selected poets save Deerchild are making their first appearance in Writes of Spring.

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.