Jane Kenyon had only begun to write her best poetry when she came down with what seemed to be a severe case of the flu. It turned out to be acute lymphoblastic leukemia. For a year she fought the ...

In this June 28, 2018 photo, a young man with the multicolor Gay Pride flag painted on his chest participates in the Gay Pride march in Managua, Nicaragua. Aidan Connelly is a production assistant on ...

A few years ago, Kirby Brandhagen, Cavalier, N.D., had to have surgery. Wanting to preserve some memories, "just in case," he says, he put them down in poetry form. "Now, 200 poems later, I'm still ...

It’s Pride Month! And also the opening night of Frameline – one of our favorite of all the fantastic LGBTQI festivals running this year. In celebration, for the rest of the month /bent will revisit ...

Most typing mistakes are corrected with Wite-Out. One local writer lets her mistakes change the course of her poem. “I think that the spirit of that free-flowing content is what's at the heart of this ...

For a long time, I wasn’t comfortable with labelling poetry – whether it was the black poetry of Philip Larkin, the spiritual poetry of John Donne, or the queer poetry of Ocean Vuong. Labelling poems ...