April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

At the heart of Mahogany Browne’s poem “Working Title” is a question: how does a poet begin to address the killing of Michael Brown? Browne, who began working as a full-time writer in 2006, began the ...

If you enjoy poetry or simply love words, you can creatively channel that same energy for manifestation with an acrostic poem ...

I thought a story on how to write a love poem would be fun. Especially if I interviewed local poets, and asked for their words of wisdom. And guess what? It is totally fun! The final product runs ...

You might wonder where poems come from. I’d like to write a poem, you think. But what should I write about? From poet Sharon Olds: “What you know that I don’t know is what you can tell me in a poem.