During a dry period of writing, Creative Writing Associate Professor Maggie Dietz felt the stirrings of a new poem. Lines from “If You Would Let Me” came to her in waking dreams, she says. Several ...

Writing is the top bucket list goal for millions – and Gary Dembs, non-profit executive search professional (Funder Non-Profit Personnel Network), just does it. He’s written a book of poetry called ...

Poet and writer Joshua Mehigan visited the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center to share his works and thought processes behind writing some of his award-winning poems. Mehigan wrote a book, “Confusing ...

Observer: As I turned the pages of POOL, I didn’t quite “know” that I was watching a poem being written iteration by iteration. Having not read a synopsis, I didn’t know what I was reading, except ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...

Marina Blitshteyn is the author of the new poetry chapbook “Russian for Lovers.” In her earlier post, she wrote about the origin of Russian for Lovers. Her blog posts are being featured this week on ...