Trotwood resident Jameelah Ricks gave up the paralegal profession in 2022 to become a full-time poet, writer and entrepreneur.

In the book’s final pages, the daughter’s outcome makes clear that the gulls got off easy. With her poetry collection “Museum of the Soon to Depart” (Carnegie Mellon University Press ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...