Author Matt Forrest Esenwine has some advice for would-be poets and creative types, and it all starts with a question: "What if ...?" ...

Part Three of John's funeral just wrapped on Days of Our Lives, and it ended with two of the people whose lives, perhaps, ...

Springfield writer Rex Ybañez shares the story behind a poem he wrote that blends culture, Spam, breakfast, jazz and a few other ingredients.

Cities have long stirred the poet’s imagination, as sources of beauty, memory, and spaces of encounter, and estrangement. Invoking the radical aesthetics of land, language and landscape in The City ...

The judges said, “Durs Grünbein’s Psyche Running is a brilliant overview and selection of a poet who satisfies our hunger to ...

SHAFTSBURY, Vt. ( ABC22/FOX44) – Maple forests and metaphors will be found together all across Vermont this summer.

For them, baseball even surpasses its long-held ranking as America’s “national pastime” — it’s an art form, a metaphor for life ... 2025 National Baseball Poetry Festival held in ...

I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November 2023, a growing number of wonderfully talented guests ...

And some of his poems are long. But even with the short ones, he writes at a level of abstraction, and the metaphors are so intricate and are, like, metaphors for metaphors, and I have about 1,000 ...

Poetry therapy is apt for giving voice to and constructing meaning from core metaphors patients hold about their lives ... Support youth in your life who may be participating in Poetry Out Loud by ...

Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it ... Although short, this poem by Jean Toomer is full of metaphors that deliver a profound commentary on death and oppression. One of starkest images ...