Missouri Poet Laureate David Harrison shares how to fill your own sack of ideas and describes what he keeps in his.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see ... When you stop to think about it ...

When writing, I try to think about how the things I’m writing about make me feel ... audience feel when they hear or read a poem. It also changes how you feel when you write it.

“Each poem I can tell ... light and show part of his life in each of these texts. I hope to be cured of you in a few days. I have to stop smoking you, drink you, think about you.

The city of San Diego’s new Poet Laureate says she hopes to make poetry ... it can help you articulate something that you never thought you could,” she said, “then I think that’s really ...

Think of things that have special meaning for you. When I call your name ... It only takes one to make life more complete. A picture: One of my favorite pictures is of Sandy when she was three ...