Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

The Web giant just unveiled a new experiment that uses AI to write a unique poem based on a word of your choice. The poem is then superimposed on a selfie you snap in your browser. I'm PCMag's ...

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...

Ron Rash, award-winning novelist and short story writer, is also an acclaimed and accomplished poet. His new book, “Poems: New and Selected” (HarperCollins) draws from six volumes and adds eight new ...

Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

From making a big deal out of the word "like" to complaining about "upspeak," there's no shortage of people who want to criticize the way women — especially young women — speak. It's enough to make ...