If you'd like to become the next Maya Angelou or Robert Frost, here are some courses that can help you with that ambition. This is a course where you will write your own poetry and have others ...

Last summer, bleary, disheartened, and often angry from more than two years of seemingly nonstop doomscrolling, I decided it was time for a big change. I needed to switch the channel, stop watching ...

Poetry isn’t only found in old books, it’s also broadcasted on the radio. A course offered by the Ohio State Department of English looks at alternative rock lyrics as poetry. Alternative Rock Lyrics ...

Over the past year, Dora Malech and Jaida Griffin would get together to talk about writing. Malech is an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars; her poem "Party Games" was selected ...

It’s 3 a.m. and the emails are coming in fast and furious. My iPhone is pinging like a Vegas slot machine that’s come up all cherries. What’s the emergency? I had just joined a discussion thread for a ...

What is outside the formal properties of the poem? More forms! As writers, we bring forms of attention, memory, imagination, and ideas to the crafting of our poetry. In this intensive course, you will ...

Nine seniors at Northside High School are getting the opportunity take a class through Harvard University from the comfort of their homes and school in Lafayette. The high-schoolers are taking the ...

Where: South Hill Public Library, 3324 S. Perry St. Cost: Free and open to the public For Stephen Pitters, it’s all about evolution. In 1985, he started the Spokane Open Poetry Association. When that ...