One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.

Turning your experiences into fiction is a creative and effective way to deal with heartache. Create characters, settings, and plots based on what you've experienced, but give yourself the freedom to ...

Based on his 2017 short collection of poems The Broken Men Chapbook, Word N Sound co-founder and poet Thabiso Mohare aimed to ...

FSU poetry professor James Kimbrell headlined The Jerome Stern Reading Series at The Bark, sharing work from his latest collection of poems.

Through poetry, Ariv Gupta shows how being your true self is the key to connection. The third-year computer science student ...