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 ...

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger and Julie Morrison traveled across Arizona, writing poems and prose to document their journey in ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...