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.

Love is a game more than a thought. It's more of a dance than a song. I think of love like I’ll never have it, I’m thinking about love and what I want out of it. I think of love like a song, I think ...

The new documentary captures one of the last year's in spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's life, and their relationship with ...

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 ...

The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April 1996 to celebrate the role of poets and poetry in American culture. Since then, it's become one of the largest literary ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She has been a writer for more than 30 years and particularly likes to write contemporary verse ...

Editor's Note: This review discusses suicide. How can poetry help us now, when practically every morning brings a fresh ...

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 ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...