It was resistance,” she said. Poetry, for Naïr, is something to hold onto in difficult times—an amulet of sorts, a beautiful and lasting presence. A Different Distance transports readers back ...

An unusually challenging chapter in life provided much of the material for a recent offering by North Augusta resident Eric Lawson, in the form of a poetry collection. "Leaving Long Beach" is a 60 ...

I write it out, three or four times, enough so that I know it by heart. I started memorizing poems in the spring of ... moods and mind to its whims. It’s hard to remember how my brain worked ...