It’s no longer just roses that require pause. While ambling through St. Paul, we can now stop and read the sidewalks. For poetry has sprouted in concrete squares around St. Paul. Twenty poems ...

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

Snapshots of life. Poems are multi-splendored things. What poetry is doesn’t matter as much as what it does. Expectations and perceptions differ from reader to reader, from need to need.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

I’m David Harrison, Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate. I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November ...

"Magdalene," a new book of poems from former New York Poet Laureate Marie Howe, who was raised Catholic, seeks to reenvision Mary Magdalene for the modern age -- and tackles some of our modern-day ...

It is designed to be the beginning of a life of exploration of the glories of verse. Similarly, a short course of only six 55-minute classes could not even hope to cover many of the poems in the book.

I’ll admit I came to “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, $50) with some trepidation. James Atlas’ masterful biography “Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an ...

Poem: Still life Anton Stephan's poem shows how life can eat at the time we have. Image by cromaconceptovisual from Pixabay. By Anton Stephan. March 04, 2025 at 12:00 AM. Comments Share ...