Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

The workmates loudly gossiping at a nearby desk may set your teeth grinding but rock star British poet David Whyte warns we ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Poets Matt Starr, Aria Aber, and Alex Dimitrov share their tips for writing a love letter (or DM) to your crush, including ...

In 1903, citizens of Kishinev went on a rampage — a pogrom against the Jews. That pogrom claimed the lives of 49 Jews and ...

Deerchild, host of CBC’s Unreserved, is the playwright behind The Secret to Good Tea, playing this month at the Grand Theatre ...

“It’s the kind of poem that Longley, like most people writing lyrically, wouldn’t have necessarily been planning to write early in his career. In many ways, he would have been more ...

When we toast these admirable lassies, as Burns reminds us, we celebrate the full range of human experience, the heroic in ...