When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

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 and surprises, providing room for both ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

I am a child sitting at my wooden flip-top desk in my fourth-grade classroom listening to Miss Hudson read “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost’s poem about two paths and a crossroad.

On a long walk, I realized that my life is like a poem in another way, too: My life, like a poem, is small and enormous. Let me explain. In a poem, counterintuitively, compression creates expansion.

I Designed a Safari Based Entirely on a Poem That Changed My Life — and You Can Sign Up for the Next Trip in Spring 2024. In central Kenya, A-List travel advisor Deborah Calmeyer is partnering ...

In new poems, Ocean Vuong looks at life after his mother's death Ocean Vuong's second poetry collection, Time is a Mother, grapples with time and its impermanence following his mother's death in 2019.

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Poem: My life so far Ethan Haselius now lives in Kasson, but is a recent Century High School graduate. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay. By Ethan Haselius. October 15, 2024 at 12:00 AM.