Gathered outside the Cambria County Library in downtown Johnstown on Tuesday, young poets recited a haiku they wrote for the ...

The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with ...

Five writers offer a collection of poetry to welcome spring and, with it, light and hope during uncertain times.

Yet late style may also announce itself as a provocation: in the shadow of the end, can I still write something new? How does ...

This story is one of the finalists of Young Post’s 2017 Winter Short Story Competition. Each week during the holidays, we will publish one of the finalists’ stories. The winning entry will appear in ...

This story is one of the finalists of Young Post’s 2017 Winter Short Story Competition. Each week during the holidays, we will publish one of the finalists’ stories. The winning entry will ...

[Takashi takes a picture of his family without them noticing] Haiku reader: A lone figure / back turned / receding into the mist. [Takashi imagines that he is a hero] Haiku reader: How cruel, / a ...

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