Poetry therapy is an expressive arts therapy utilizing poems, lyrics, metaphors and more. It can be used to address a range of issues and conditions, including depression and PTSD. Poetry therapy can ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian American writer Ilya Kaminsky’s poem “We Lived Happily During the War” went viral across social media. Poetry can often help people make sense ...

Disaster recovery usually provides the necessities of food and water, but a group of St. Tammany artists wants to meet another critical need as well — poetry. To do that, Slidell poet Dennis Formento ...

April is National Poetry Month and a good time to consider beginning a poetry writing practice for yourself and/or your ...

Reading, writing and sharing poetry can help people cope with loneliness or isolation and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression, a new study shows. Research by the University of Plymouth and ...

I began writing this on Mother’s Day, as my heart seemed buried by the weight of my son’s recent diagnosis of an incurable, debilitating disease –– an inherited illness that remained silent for ...

Yolanda Wisher, left, and Trapeta B. Mayson, right, host a poetry workshop. (Photo by Andriana Ortiz / Embassy: Interactive) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

Safia Elhillo was a freshman in high school when she started keeping a diary to record her heartbreaks. All of her entries were poems, so if her parent ever found them, she could hide behind the ...