As the year comes to an end, we don't want to lose sight of the fact that it's been a difficult one for a lot of people. With the pandemic raging due to the omicron variant, slow economic recovery and ...

José Chávez, a Riverside resident, is an award-winning bilingual poetry author for children. His new book is “Dancing Fruit, Singing Rivers.” (Courtesy of José Chávez) “There are three needs of the ...

This is not poetry for pity, applause, or analysis. This is poetry as presence. Whether you're searching for romantic poems, poems about grief, poems about hope, or simply the best poems that reflect ...

“There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.” During our lifetime, we all grapple with the grief that comes ...

A conversation with the anonymous creator of the popular account about their new collection of poems. Since 2015, @poetryisnotaluxury has become one of the most visible and widely followed sources of ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How can poetry help us now, when practically every morning brings a fresh assault on knowledge, wisdom and safety? Amid the cruel political discourse ...