“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” – W.H. Auden Several years ago, when I was teaching creative writing to high school students in the Writers in ...

Anyone paying close attention to Dallas culture will remember 2014 as the year a literary scene began to emerge. It was the year the city's first independent bookstore, The Wild Detectives, opened; ...

Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, offers a new collection of poems called "Deep Lane," in which he examines the nature of descent. In (the shared ...

Two local young women artists are thrilled that poems they wrote with guidance from mentors at the Deep Center creative nonprofit organization are being turned into songs with the help of folks from ...

Have you ever been to a poetry reading? You know that awkward time afterward when you’re not sure what to do? The Hinge Poem, a new online feature from the Hinge Literary Center, gives a new model for ...

The American poet and Aids chronicler talks about drugs, gardening, break-up tattoos and letting go after years of being strong In 2008 the American poet Mark Doty was awarded the National Book award ...