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

It's no longer just roses that require pause. While ambling through St. Paul, we can now stop and read the sidewalks.

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 ...

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.

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

"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 ...

Anton Stephan's poem shows how life can eat at the time we have.

I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires ...

One day remains to memorize this week’s poem. (You probably already know more than you realize!) Let’s stay merry.