Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, actor, writer and LGBTQ activist Ryan Cassata, New York playwright Kacie Koen, and youth ...

BRAINERD — Submissions are now open for a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Country Journal, Central Lakes College Verse ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, I joined Joe Hoover, S.J., our poetry editor, and James Davis May, the winner of last year’s contest, in a spirited debate to choose the winning poem for the 2025 ...

Cylie Naylor came out in a poem onstage. Her parents were in the audience. During a Pride Night event at Ghost Poetry Show at Rebel Lounge, off Indian School Road and 23rd Street in Phoenix ...

The author’s latest poetry collection, “Smother,” hit bookshop shelves recently, so we took the opportunity to hear more about her work. Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

In writer and poet Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay’s 2010 poem “Misfit,” the speaker of the poem notes that other people often ostracize him for his differences. But he doesn’t care ...

4️⃣ Poems & porpoises: The Yangtze finless porpoise — a smaller dolphin-like creature — has faced extreme declines in numbers in the past four decades. A research team in China used ...

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect. By Lynsey Chutel Reporting from London Few teenagers would want the world to ...