Watch out! Don't confuse similes with metaphors. 'The snake moved like a ripple on a pond.' 'It was as slippery as an eel.' 'Jess is as graceful as a gazelle.' In her poem George Square ...

Springfield poet Dottie Joslyn writes about using poetry to help unlock emotions people might have difficulty discussing otherwise.

Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively, compression creates expansion. A single image or metaphor opens up into a wide open space. Less is often more. The more I edited down my life to the ...

Although the Covid-19 pandemic was nothing short of a dystopian reality, it inadvertently became a space for individuals to develop interests that might’ve otherwise eluded them. Author of Tween ...