Penn State Altoona English professor Erin Murphy has a lot to celebrate — a new poetry book “Fluent in Blue” and having a story selected for “2024 Best Micro Fiction” anthology. “In Case of Emergency” ...

Gina Mingoia is an English professor, author, and poet. She chatted about her inspirations as a writer and being a part of the digital age. Gina Mingoia. Photo Credit: Samantha Mingoia McVeigh Gina ...

Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, served as an interpretive judge for the Poetry Out Loud Pennsylvania State Finals at the Forum in Harrisburg, Pa., on March 3.

UGA poet Coleman Barks, celebrated for his own work and for bringing Rumi’s poetry to modern audiences, died in Athens surrounded by his family at age 88.

Akio Nakagawa, a professor of contemporary culture at Shokei University in Japan, recently published a collection of sijo poems titled “Afterimage.” Sijo is a traditional Korean poetic form comprising ...

When he first started teaching, Eli Burrell was shocked at the "almost disdainful reaction" of students to poetry. "But then you introduce them to poems that speak to them in ways that maybe they didn ...

Struggling as a single mother in 1967 to raise a son on scant funds while teaching 10 college courses a year, Helen Vendler realized that “the only way I could make my life easier was to give up ...

“Writing is so cathartic,” says Fort Collins poet and CSU’s Faculty Director of Literacy Through Prose and Poetry, Devon Fulford. “So many times, the impetus for the act of writing itself is pain.” ...