Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

According to the Roadside Poetry Web site [at www.roadsidepoetry.org ... poetry was how I sorted out all the stuff of life. Now, I still write when I’m trying to make sense of things, but ...

Jerry Villere leads the newest book library book club, which meets at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, ...

From the 1970s through the 2000s, Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler were regularly mentioned together as America’s leading ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will ... provided a witty and acute anatomy of small-town life and of our own American cultural and spiritual ...

There, the two talked about the joyful nitty-gritty of not only poetry, but the poets' wellspring, life. Scott Hocker is an award-winning freelance writer and editor at The Week Digital.

Poetry is rising in popularity in the UK as social media drives an unexpected renaissance in the often overlooked genre. Last year, sales of poetry books reached £14.4 million – their highest ...