in places she’d rather not name, how her skin there felt more like leather. she already knew what she knew. Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: “Woman in the Painting,” ...

Southerners know that beauty isn’t about looks. You don’t find it in glancing at someone, but in talking to them, connecting with them, understanding them, and comprehending what they love and the ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

Amina Hasan is a rising sophomore at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and an alumna of Century High School. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send ...

Born in Boston, Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848) was a woman deep in the councils of the Transcendentalists and a regular poet in the pages of The Dial, their chief New England journal. In her 1840 “I ...

Most people know Julie Marie Swanson as a retired nurse. But there is another side, a poetic side. Swanson recently published her second book of poems. Her poetry is about people, the old and the ...

"Arabic calligraphy is the most beautiful," says Hana Sadiq, a Franco-Iraqi fashion designer who lives in Jordan — Khalil MAZRAAWI With verses from love poems and flowing calligraphy, Jordan-based ...

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States at the Capitol in Washington Jan. 20, 2021. She is a parishioner at St. Brigid ...