Congratulations to Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert on being chosen as a runner-up in the New York Times' Coming of Age in 2024 Contest! Students were asked to submit a piece of writing or art ...

Jean Toomer was a profound literary voice of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most enigmatic poets of his time. Born in ...

How might pareidolia — seeing faces in nature or hearing distinct sounds emerge from ambient noise — benefit our creativity, ...

The opera “Primero Sueño” translates Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem about the soul’s journey into a musical promenade ...

Have you ever stood in front of a microphone, heart racing, palms sweating, mind focused, facing a panel of judges? That’s ...

As we step into 2025, the literary world is a buzz with a slew of new voices and well-established authors continuing to ...

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ...

The Erie Art Museum has an exhibition by a printmaker known for art about war, poverty and grief. The museum is also taking submissions for its Spring Show.

Given the dismal state of things, a lot of millennials have been realising just how good they had it growing up. The web ...

The book is a ballad of appreciation for the lake and all of the many ways that its relationship to our state is symbiotic.

Of all the poems that I read and “studied” in school, a simple one by Robert Frost has grown on me through the years. Frost’s ...

A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly ...