For St. John’s University student Sanaa Marie Omondi, achieving a major milestone went beyond completing her first semester ...

Far from being a good ol’ boy’s club, the world of crime fiction owes a large part of its success to the women authors who ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Dig out your smallest violin. You're going to need it when you hear the tragic, tear-jerking tale of the Earl of Yarmouth and ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

York woman Nikki has laid bare abuse suffered at the hands of a partner that left her so hopeless she preferred staying in fear to trying to escape.

ENTRIES are now being taken for this year's Wirral Open Poetry Festival Competition. The contest will be adjudicated by distinguished poets Helen Ivory and Martin Figura, while special Wirral prizes ...

turns being made. High and low cultural references – one poem references Gauguin’s Christ and the Velvet Underground within a few clauses – are blended with childhood memories into thrilling ...