Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year.

Jesse Castro is a poet and visual artist, community activist and one of the original coordinators of National Poetry Month in San Antonio. Castro's visual poems have been seen at the Central Library, ...

Ekphrastic writing (poems, fiction, or creative nonfiction) is inspired by works of art (painting, sculpture, photography, or even architecture, music, or film) that attract, mesmerize, pierce or ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

Sklansky contrasts light verse about the universe with facts about outer space (which appear in sidebars) in this gentle collection, while Schuett combines homey gouache cartoons with digitally ...

I’ll begin with a prefatory caveat, based on my experience as a writer and teacher: There are no rules; learn them all. It is both exciting and a special kind of analytical and intuitive work to ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.