Poet Reuben Jackson acknowledges that his response to where he finds inspiration – the world – is a “corny, general answer.” He’s curious – or more accurately, nosy – about how people live and “the ...

Joyce Folsom Johnson, of Shapleigh, has launched her new book, "Poems of Faith and Inspiration," and a CD of one of her poems from this collection, "The Fourth of July." Johnson was born in Shapleigh ...

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A William Stafford centennial volume. "I know of no other twentieth-century American writer as much admired and respected as William Stafford," avers Ted Kooser on the front cover of this slim volume.

Dear friends and cherished readers, There are moments when the soul longs not just to speak, but to sing. When words alone are not enough, and yet — words are all we have. I wrote the poem below in ...

Hannah Bonner is a recent postgraduate student at the University of Iowa’s Creative Nonfiction MFA program. She has worked as a film and literary critic in addition to her writing career. Bonner is a ...

DeWitt Clinton's new book is a collection of poems that he wrote responding to Chinese poetry. Clinton is a poet and a retired English professor from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Before his ...

Esther Grace Simmons is making the world a better place, one poem at a time. She often turns her poems into songs. "Teens Try to Prevent Crime in America" is one of those songs, and it currently is ...

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Her poetry is grounded in both sensuality and spirituality. The ability to celebrate life’s joys and sorrows while seeing the ...