5+ hour, 37+ min ago  (754+ words) There are communities built around commerce, communities built around ideology, and communities built around convenience. Then there are communities formed through listening " communities that emerge slowly through conversation, vulnerability, art, memory, grief, and the difficult work of remaining present to…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (857+ words) We can find healing powers in writing a poem about our present conflicts or conundrums. This requires no special writing skills. We simply open our mindful brain to our experience and jot down what. .. The Healing Power of Poetry Anyone…...

8+ hour ago  (590+ words) I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. Read more Memories, light the corners of my mind June is just around the corner, bringing with it all manner of wonderful things. The end of the school year. The start of…...

2+ hour, 50+ min ago  (801+ words) Karen Solie, Randy Lundy and Nadine Bhabha will judge the 2026 CBC Poetry Prize. The jury selects the shortlist and winner of the 2026 CBC Poetry Prize. Apanel of established writers from across Canadareview the submissions and will determine the longlist from…...

3+ hour, 32+ min ago  (83+ words) Literary Hub Talk a Blue Streak is available from Monitor Books. Lila Matsumoto's publications include the poetry collections Talk a Blue Streak (Monitor, 2026), Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water (Prototype, 2021), Urn & Drum (Shearsman, 2018), and a creative-critical artist's book, The Very Nature…...

7+ hour, 31+ min ago  (539+ words) At a time when India's cities are rapidly expanding, a new book is inviting readers to pause and reflect on what this growth really means. City Limits " The Crisis of Urbanization, part of the Rethinking India series and edited by…...

15+ hour, 44+ min ago  (1131+ words) "Being in a room alone with a Goya is really special," tells Le'la Slimani, Author. "He didn't paint the present or the past " he painted the future, our own situation. He saw things others don't." "There's something about disappointment " 25 years…...

17+ hour, 43+ min ago  (349+ words) Author Katey Schultz will be holding a fiction writing workshop at the Grass River Natural Area Education Center (6500 Alden Hwy) in Bellaire on Thursday, May 28, from 1-3: 30 pm. The cost of this workshop is $10, and it is open to writers of…...

20+ hour, 35+ min ago  (145+ words) There's no real substitute for living through the indie-grunge scene of the early 2000s, but reading Benny Peterson's beautifully illustrated and delightfully queer new novel, The Maidenheads'out now from Penguin Random House'is perhaps as close as you can get to actually…...

16+ hour, 36+ min ago  (352+ words) ALAPPUZHA: Chandiroor Thaha, a children's writer in Malayalam, has finally been acknowledged by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). His poem "Nallathu Cheyyam' is part of the Malayalam Class 2 textbook this academic year. From playful poems to heart-warming stories…...