Many people ask me what it means to know your power and what does it mean to become empowered. Becoming self-empowered means you come face to face with who you really are and what you really want.

We sat down with Poynter senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, author of numerous books including “How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times,” to talk about what makes good short writing. It’s a topic ...

‘There is not a particle of life that does not bear poetry within it’—Gustave Flaubert I read this quote to the small group of assisted living residents who had signed up for my weekly poetry writing ...