Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

Was it art? No. But poetry doesn’t need to be art all the time. It doesn’t have to be serious, or beautiful, or thought-provoking, or “inspiring.” It’s perfectly all right to write somet ...

A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness, anger or fear. Or make you feel happy or excited. Franny Choi, a poet and ...

A moment of letting go. In Dove’s hands, it’s a poem with many layers. On one level, it’s about art. It’s about the training — in the case of dance, practice and more practice ...

To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art. When he's struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music and poetry serve as an anchor. "It helps ...

“Poetry heals me.” The northwest-side writer, whose main genre of writing is poetry, came into art as a means of healing at the age of 14 when her 17-year-old step-brother died after being ...

Spoken word has become increasingly popular thanks to the rise of poetry slams, short-form video content, and audio-sharing platforms. Spoken word isn’t just an art form; it’s a means of ...

On Saturday, May 31, more than 200 people gathered at the Lynnwood Library for the Voces del Alma International Poetry ...

Illustration art direction by Tala Safie. Illustrations by Hannah Robinson. Audio of “Recuerdo” from “Edna St. Vincent Millay in Readings From Her Poems” (1941, RCA); accompanying ...