British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

“What a joy this was,” Kate Wakeling said of judging the Caterpillar Poetry Prize 2025. The annual prize, run by The Moth, ...

As I stand in the sun-drenched park, the aroma of barbecue smoke wafts through the air, curling upward like a prayer.

Many adults admit to not getting poetry. Given all that we face as adults, I don’t get it. One answer, I suspect, has to do ...

This Father's Day, unlike millions of people around the world, Olivia Petter won't be spending it with her dad. She explores ...

I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

Ian Manuel, sentenced to life in prison in 1991 for attempted murder in a downtown Tampa botched robbery at 14 years old, is ...

After all these years, though, I’m still trying to make a diagnosis: why is it that doctors write? There was no shortage of ...

This year’s contest was held in memory of Joel Cohen, Wagner College Class of 1950, and a beloved Staten Island Advance columnist.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. painted a bleak picture of people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, that was especially hurtful to ...

As these credentials suggest, there is a widespread view, if not a consensus, that she is one of the major poets writing in ...