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Ruben Quesada: “Counting Silence”. The central argument about poetic meter and rhythm is that poets have been hearing patterns of stress, timing, and intonation since infancy.

Did you know nine poems are posted across the city of Estacada, encouraging people to explore beautiful green spaces while enjoying prose from local writers? Poetry in Public Places is […]

Author Hannah Adams dives into the purpose of a poet (as opposed to a lawyer, architect, or other role) and what they do for the world.

A new poem by Ron Smith, former Poet Laureate of Virginia.

Annie Dillard is rightly celebrated as a pioneer in creative nonfiction after her death on Sep. 15, 2026, at age 81. But the dazzling, disorienting feel

“It is simple enough, and true enough, to say that Annie was unlike anyone I’d ever met, then or since.” Robert Baird remembers Annie Dillard, who died last week, at 81.

Genre-bending books  have greatly influenced my own work. I’ve written about my mother’s self completed death in a new memoir called O Mother, out with McSweeney’s on September 1. In it, I us…

The poet Mary Oliver was in a relationship with photographer Molly Malone Cook for decades. Their love story started with a chance meeting in New York City.

When the irruptive squall of language abates, when storm clouds separate, Susan intones, “You are of me & I of you, I cannot tell / Where you leave off and I begin.”

For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.

Every reader, farmers and non-farmers alike, can learn from his broader ethics of care, attention and negotiation with the natural world.

I wrote my memoir, Huna, in English, which is to say I wrote it inside a contradiction. Huna is a memoir of the Egyptian revolution, six years of political imprisonment in Egypt, and my US exile. I…

Bristol poet Sharon Arsego writes that her poem, “Upon” Reflection (originally untitled) is one of her 20 sonnets published in the “Scenes and Sonnets” (2024), a photo and p…

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In season 5 episode 9 of "Writer's Digest Presents," senior editor Robert Lee Brewer joins Michael Woodson to discuss writing poetry.

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Born in Bremerton, Wash. at the end of World War II, David “Lee” Garrison remembers “always writing.” He graduated high school in 1963 then moved across the country to Middletown, Connecticut, to atte...

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Deep Listening by Laura Daniels I asked my advisor for guidance on a message received from a friend who denigrated a medical treatment my sister received.        …

The Camagüey-born poet Alejandro Muñoz Aguilera recently shared a poignant poem on Facebook titled "My Neighborhood and Its Dawn," capturing the pligh...

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