Sibilance is a hissing sound in language. It occurs when 's', 'sh', or 'z' sounds repeat. This technique adds mood to poetry ...

At the 2026 Tremont Writers Conference, participating writers will receive the inspiration and encouragement they need to keep going.

Singaporean Author and Stroke Survivor Terence Ang won a 2025 NYC Big Book Award and 2026 Independent Press Award; A ...

Each poem is vastly different from the next, with a throwback to when the beat poets ruled, without trying to be ...

Kimberly Brown, who goes by the artist name Boots, gets messages every day from people who have stumbled across her work.

Are you convinced poetry is some code you just can’t crack? In her new book, “Fear Less,” former Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith ...

A series of Mondays in 2025 saw me carry a box of creative writing prompts, balanced like a baby on my hip, and push one palm against hospital double doors leading to an oncology and haematology day ...

In an interview, frontman Bono denounced antisemitism, the Oct. 7 attack and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Romaine Washington writes about how a poem by poet-activist Claude McKay traveled decades to inspire the Black Panther Party.

Bach, Bach and Bach at Assumption. Boston’s Emmanuel Music, which has been performing cantatas by J.S. Bach every Sunday for the past 50 years, will perform three of his diverse ...

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

In Woolf’s final, unfinished manuscript, she employs a “methodology of disorder” that enables “that state of mind in which it ...