Criticism

On Oprah Daily you can find “40 Positive Affirmations to Add to Your Daily Rotation.” The first of these comes

In my online poetry workshop, I recently gave my students a writing exercise where I set a five-minute timer and

I first read Amanda Palmer’s The Art of Asking while I was going through my divorce. The marriage had been a

There are few professions that require nothing more than a pen, paper, and a writing desk. Emily Dickinson’s writing desk

Getting over heartbreak isn’t easy. Recently finding myself wrecked on its shores, I turned to the only forms of solace

Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under a White Sky might owe its creation, in part, to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a seminal book on ecological crisis,

It has been said that Sappho wrote “What cannot be said will be wept.” Like Pablo Neruda, I could write

The art of writing a poem is, at its heart, the art of paying attention. And the reading of a

If you’ve done any reading about recovery, as I have, you begin to see certain themes appear over and over.