“Poetry leaves something out,” our columnist Elisa Gabbert says. But that’s hardly the extent of it. By Elisa Gabbert I once heard a student say poetry is language that’s “coherent enough.” I love a ...

Godmothers Grow: The Sacred Circle with Diana Raab, Ph.D., a space to gather, reflect, and connect with kindred spirits ...

With debts to past masters of postmodern collage from Ed Dorn to Charles Bernstein, Wallace's poems seem drier, more direct, more clearly political than their precedents. Almost equally divided ...

For Vernal & Sere Theatre’s 10th production ”The Glass Essay,” founding company member Sawyer Estes issued himself a unique challenge as a playwright: He wouldn’t actually write a line of dialogue ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...

The verse essay has fallen out of style so definitively that even the most recalcitrant of teachers won’t bother assigning to their students the classics of the genre. Lucretius thought poetry a ...

In his second collection of essays, Tony ­Hoagland sets out on what seems a doubly impossible task, even for one of the more interesting and exciting poets writing today. His plan? To put forth 20 ...

John Kinsella receives funding from the Australia Council. I publish with Peepal Tree Press, Magabala Books, and the University of Western Australia Press.

LOGAN, Utah — Creative Communication announces its annual student essay, poetry and art contests. The essay contest divisions are grades 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12, with 10 top winners in each division. To ...

As the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom intensifies across the country, the firing of a Tennessee teacher last month emerged as a flashpoint in the discussion over the ...