It’s impossible for me to talk about writing without talking about living, writes Maggie Smith, author of the new book, "Dear ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

The arts are often written off as worthless, or certainly not worth the federal funding that they receive. But young poets like me know otherwise.

In his poem “Little Gidding,” written during World ... can be one of the most exciting expressions of the life of the mind.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and you’ll find yourself 20 poems richer. These aren’t just any poems either ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

He says that poetry offers an “invitation back into the world,” to confront the difficult and to help grapple with life both speakable and unspeakable while finding joy in the process. Whyte ...