This is Sidewalk Stories, a collaboration between Crosscurrents and the East Bay’s Street Spirit newspaper where we hear from ...

Two poets were waiting for me when we pulled into a gas station somewhere on the Texas Panhandle. My husband and I were moving back to California after spending the first year of our marriage in ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Back when I chose my Classic poem, “I was in a Hurry” by Dunya Mikhail, I was struck by its powerful message of losing a country through the comparison of lottery tickets or Purgatory — and I was ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

A: As I was writing this, one of my closest friends died, and so I started writing elegy poems to her. She was 39 when she died, and I was feeling devastated at her loss. I started writing to her ...

Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

Yet that inch of distance is as immense as an ocean. Subverting expectations. The poem might have ended there, on this fourth, expected line. But the author subverts expectation by adding two ...

These poems about friendship are sweet, ... His poem “Communication” is one of those friendship poems you can share with your long-distance bestie. RD.com, Getty Images. 5.

Long-distance relationships can be a challenge. You're in love for a reason, after all, and when you're apart, the distance can fill you with longing. Our long-distance relationship poems capture ...

Poetry lovers can call 503-928-7008 to hear a new daily poem through the end of April. DeAgostini / Getty Images. Anis Mojgani was named Oregon’s poet laureate in April 2020, just weeks after ...

Taylor Swift usually writes either an essay or poem to be included in her album packaging, but for “The Tortured Poets Department,” she used the buddy system. Stevie Nicks contributed a ...