“I’m the writer I am today because of the teachers I’ve had who uplifted me. Now, on @MasterClass, I’m so excited to pay what I’ve learned forward and be a resource for anyone who is interested in ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

An 8-year-old. A 22-year-old MFA student. An 80-year-old retiree. What they all have in common is that they’re emerging poets who’ve visited Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s office hours at ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

“The poet is the priest of the invisible“, this quote by Wallace Stevens encapsulates a lot in itself. However, times are changing, social media is a real deal, and who doesn’t want a bite of it. So, ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...