In savoring more, we increase feelings of happiness and strengthen general well-being, writes guest columnist Gianna Somrak.

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

The Fields Poetry Reading Series is set to launch its inaugural season on Thursday, March 20 at the Auditorium-Theater of the ...

Writer Michael Salinger has some unexpected advice for anyone who wants to start writing: don't — at least not right away.

Shortly after the evening fell, the event began, and the courtyard of Batighar became quite crowded. People of various ages ...

Though I read everything from memoirs to romantasy, there is one genre in particular that haunted me for a long time: poetry.

The healing power of nature combined with the introspective nature of poetry creates a powerful tool for emotional regulation ...

On Feb. 4, The Bark's Jerome Stern Reading Series spotlighted esteemed Florida State University poetry professor James "Jimmy" Kimbrell. Kimbrell read a collection of old and new poems to an audience ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

I keep a complete copy of Dickinson’s poems on my prayer stand. I pick it up to read before I pray, not because she is particularly religious—she is more often irreligious and irreverent—but ...

This brings me to my very slowly coalescing new year resolution—to read more poetry. Edward Hirsch once wrote, “We ought to speak more often of the precision of poetry, which restores the ...