Multiple members of the extended Hope College community have work included in “Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry,” an anthology co-edited by Jack Ridl, professor emeritus of English. The 203-page, ...

It's been a sobering week. But it's a new year, we've got a new president, and, dare I say, there are glimmers of hope on the horizon despite the darkness of the past few days. With that hope in mind, ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- Cynthia Phipps has been writing poems since she was a child, but she rarely shared them beyond her family. But then the firestorm happened, and she decided to post some of ...

Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl of the Hope College English faculty are editors of "250 Poems: A Portable Anthology," published recently by Bedford/St. Martin's Press. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl of the ...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Ishmael Hope spent six years putting together his first collection of poetry, "Courtesans of Flounder Hill," a period of time in which the manuscript went through many changes - as ...

Khawadah,* a Syrian refugee, has seen a lifetime of suffering. Like many women, she was forced to leave school to marry. Later, the war sent her into exile in Jordan. Despite such hardships, the ...

The piece, unveiled during the "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" reception, will sit alongside one of Robert Frost on the WT ...

CHARLOTTE — Inside the Mecklenburg County Detention Center, a small group of men shuffle into a classroom twice a week, for a poetry class, led by Kelly Greene and Shane Manier. Manier says the ...