En plein air painting is a French term that means out of doors painting. In other words, the act of painting outside in the open. This...

If you’re even a moderate reader, chances are good that you’ve run into James Patterson – the word prolific doesn’t even do it justice,...

Whether you are a poet or a prosaist, your next great work could be hiding in a dream cloud. You might say that you don’t dream, or that...

Pablo Neruda, born as Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto in Parral, Chile, to a rail-worker father and school-teacher mother (who...

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This spotlight takes us to the cold lands of Russia, and while I was researching poems and poets across different time periods one caught...

Step 1: Assure yourself you have enough time to write a 15 page short story, even if you forget when your due date is every few days....

by Josh Ward Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus), Giles County, Virginia, August 2021 Canon 5D Mark IV with Canon 100-mm f/2.8 macro...

by Kelsey Briggs At a time way back around the 1st century, before many nation’s histories had been established, poetry was upheld as a...

When I tell people I’m a writer, they often ask a reasonable question: “What do you write about?” Usually, I respond with a handful of my...