The world is always talking to us, but all too often we are just not listening. One of the things that one can do as a poet is to enter into conversation with the more than human existence which is ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

Wendell Berry’s instructions to rural writers to move back home for renewed artistic inspiration and fulfillment has been followed nearly to the point of cliché. The Kentucky poet, who is the urban ...

After divorcing in 2005, Springboro-based author Katrina Kittle took her self-proclaimed “Eat Pray Love” year, housesitting in Portugal, Connecticut and Brooklyn. She wanted to see if she had the ...