Writing can be an albatross around the neck. Or it can be an adventure of great expectations leading to profitable ends. For Alex Z. Salinas, writing is a wild roller-coaster ride with its curvy ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

Re “The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing,” Commentary, May 20: I vehemently disagree with Crispin Sartwell’s characterization of the five-paragraph essay as “hoo-ha.” While he explains that ...

The most gratifying thing about writing these commentaries is the feedback I get. It doesn’t matter if the feedback is positive, or negative (though I like the positive kind better). Feedback tells me ...

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s fast-growing language model that can write everything from essays to poems and even computer code, is roiling classrooms from middle school to graduate school, leading school ...