Neil Hilborn, like many poets, is a troubled soul. His affliction? Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The man has struggled with severe OCD for years. Now he's found a powerful way to transform his ...

Then I enjoyed a few fanciful moments thinking of what actually would make a grown man cry; I was pretty sure, for most men, it wouldn't be a poem. Maybe that palpable letdown and viewer melancholy ...

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails ...

The poet Marvin Bell has been writing “dead man poems” for more than a quarter century, beginning at age 53. His recent generous volume, “Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems,” brings together four ...

It took a little inspiration. And knowledge of one magazine's style. Those things, combined with ability and education, resulted in a published poem for John Mullen. The Fremont man's poem, titled ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Most of the poem spilled out of Yex Diaz in five short minutes — faster, even, than its eventual ...

South African spoken word artist Thabiso Mohare performs under the name Afurakan. He shares a poem he wrote about Nelson Mandela. Poem: Nelson Mandela, 'An Ordinary Man' On Sunday, South Africans will ...

Writers are nothing if not persistent. Michael Derrick Hudson, a white man from Indiana — and a genealogist, no less — decided it would be appropriate to fake his racial background in the interest of ...

“The Snow Man” appeared in Poetry magazine in 1921 and then in the 1923 “Harmonium,” the first book of poetry from Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). The book was not a success, and Stevens made sure with ...

PHILADELPHIA ‒ Dogs barked, birds chirped, office workers lunched and chatted on nearly every bench. At one end of the square, a small circle of women, toddlers and infants had an "Old MacDonald" ...