Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

By Joshua Clover Selected by Anne Boyer Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions ...

In each stanza, Whyte invites the reader to consider the “questions that can make or unmake a life.” That poem changed my life as I thought about what questions will guide my life — and my ...

Jim Rolfes was a veteran selected to go on Midwest Honor Flight Mission 26 out of Sioux City on Tuesday, June 3. Rolfes has ...

The book is about, yes, Disneyland, which was a fun subject to play with in these poems as I was, ultimately, telling a larger story about growing older and living life after my parents have ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments ... “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ...

I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers to ask questions.

I’ve tried to memorize a poem every week since, either because they felt right in the moment or because the moment brought them to me. Struggling to make sense of my changing life, I memorized ...

It includes compassion, understanding, integrity, the pain and sorrow of my life experiences, my heart ... “I am ugly” from your mental vocabulary. This poem was written and submitted by Felicia S.