A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines, poems ...

Basking Shark To stub an oar on a rock where none should be, To have it rise with a slounge out of the sea Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me. But not too often – though enough. I count ...

Also: Nesbitt will be signing books from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the NorthTown Barnes and Noble, 4750 N. Division St. Info: (509) 482-4235. Kenn Nesbitt has a new collection of poetry out, but this ...

If you're writing nature poetry today, you are engaging in crisis. … What's the mood of hope, and what's the emotional palette? Those are big questions, [and] I think humor helps me express doubt of ...

PM Chaucer’s hosts Poetry Night featuring Stephanie Barbé Hammer, Rich Ferguson, Kathleen Florence, and Melinda ...

Long rumored to have been in production and finally realized, the fruits of Jack Gilbert's incredible career as one of the most important poets of his generation, of any generation, have been gathered ...