Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Rita Dove reads her poem "American Smooth." The arts play an instrumental role in young people's lives. Pursuing creative endeavors helps young people in social, intellectual, ...

The White House has issued a cutting response to Joan Baez’s new poem speculating that a “little green worm” may have eaten ...

Joan Baez, in her new poem published through Rolling Stone on October 23, said that "a little green worm" has eaten U.S.

Two new books of Jewish poetry form a bridge to the aftermath of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and also speak to us today.

Slut shaming is no joke, but this poem, “Bread Thread” by Emily Weitzman, manages condemn shamers in a deliciously hilarious way. Delivered at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam in March, the ...

When the nominations for the 2016 Academy Awards were announced, the glaring omission of black actors and actresses from all major categories was met with severe backlash, with many threatening to ...

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he ...