Too many of us have a less-than-stellar introduction to poetry. Maybe we’re forced to read poems that don’t speak to us and then analyze them to death for English class. Or maybe we find a poet we ...

Eight years ago, John Carroll was writing and editing profiles for a local arts website about people more interesting than him doing more interesting things. His own fiction writing was going nowhere, ...

Etymologically, the word ‘poetry’ can be traced to ‘poiesis’ in Greek. It means ‘to make’ or ‘to create’. To create out of nothingness is godlike. To create out of ‘something’, is blackout poetry.

Caeli Faisst was an undergraduate at SUNY Fredonia in the 2010s when her fiction professor posed a question to the class: Do you hold books sacred? Of course, they said, although they didn’t offer a ...