Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about Black life and culture, revealing through his words his people’s music ...

So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits. Skip to main content. ... 30 Poems About Life That Will Change How You See the World.

Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to ...

As these moving short poems prove, you can work poetry into your daily life. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World. ... 40 Sweet Love Poems for Him and Every Man in Your Life.

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 ...

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.

TRUE LIFE, by Adam Zagajewski. Translated by Clare Cavanagh The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski’s great poem “To Go to Lvov” has a special importance for many young poets in different languages.

T he only book Martin Bell published in his lifetime was his Collected Poems, a hardback between mustard-coloured paper covers with a wood engraving showing a contemplative puritan poet.There was ...

Domestic calm and the chance to catch your breath carry more meaning here beside the earlier life Betts recalls in other poems: Incarcerated as a teenager, Betts (“Felon,” “Bastards of the ...