When Steffani Fletcher launched Hope at Hand Inc. in 2009 to provide art poetry therapy to local organizations and youth in crisis in Jacksonville, she didn’t have any specific goals in mind. “This ...

overhear everything. And until August, each staff member was juggling such a big workload that poets who submitted work to the organization’s highly respected and influential magazine, Poetry, often ...

About a year ago, a fledgling group of four writers – all from Stafford, all of whom knew each other through a variety of different avenues – came together to form a casual poetry and writing group.

For members of the Southern Minnesota Poets Society in Mankato, poetry is an opportunity to take personal, authentic, even daily and seemingly mundane experiences and turn them into something vivid ...

Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel ...

Has a poetry group for you. “Anyone interested in poetry or poets at any stage in their writing are welcome to join SEMNP,” says Rochesterite Susan McMillan, a coordinator for Southeastern Minnesota ...

Belinda Acosta urges everyone to read poetry — of all kinds. “‘Poetry is not a luxury,’ Audre Lorde said. It can’t stop a bullet or cure cancer, but sometimes, a poem can be the spark that leads you ...