"My original idea was to stand on the street corners where you might see a homeless person standing and have a cardboard sign that would say 'Poetry for Change,' and that's it." "My original idea was ...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Most mornings, David Denny ambles around a Metro stop in downtown Washington D.C., in the signature neon-yellow vest of a vendor selling Street Sense, a newspaper ...

Late July twilight lingered over Ingersoll Avenue as Will Bortz stood under an indigo sky. He walked along the sidewalk brushing against store windows on that two-way street with his wife Chelsie and ...

John Ratliff, the Birdman, sits on a bench on 16th and Mission Streets, watching the birds peck rice off the cement in San Francisco, on October 28, 2016. By Julio Marcial On a recent afternoon, as ...

Nobody goes into poetry to get rich. But at Shawn Welcome’s low point, he was pretty much homeless. He was married with children, yet relying on friends and relatives to take them in. It can be a ...

Writing a character in a novel is a mystery to me. But a poem? A character in a poem has no deus ex machina in the last line. The poet is left at the end of a poem with an ambitious question: Was it ...

In the latest episode of “Conversations Different,” Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta discusses the launch of new poetry workshops aimed at giving an outlet and sense of community to Santa Fe’s ...

Some people devote themselves to sharing culture, or creating art, or helping others. Ethna McKiernan was passionate about all three. She helped spread Irish culture, wrote acclaimed poetry and worked ...