CHICAGO (WLS) -- At a halfway house on Chicago's West Side, there's been a sudden burst of creativity that has to do with putting rhyme and rhythm into troubled lives. For over 60 years, St. Leonard's ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

When you grow up reading voraciously, you often develop a tendency to write. While most people write prose and that too fiction, some however opt for a different genre to express themselves, ...

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Faith stirs the spoken word poetry. As a teen, Amena Brown listened to hip-hop and dreamed of being the next Lauryn Hill; she even had a stage name, "Teknique." But she never could quite make her ...

It came as a surprise to me that Asir Ajmal is a poet and a short story writer. On top of it, he writes in three languages: English, Urdu and Punjabi. Thus far, I had known Ajmal only as a ...