And it’s an art form that pretty much anyone can appreciate; a lot of poets write beautiful poems for kids, which help build ...

Arguably one of the most beautiful love poems ever written ... suggest Dickinson had a livelier romantic life behind closed doors. The poem opens with a passionate desire to spend the night ...

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

If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems ... and then one day I stumbled on someone who brought Yeats’s poem to life. I wish I could spare my own daughter my circuitous ...

English cryptographer Leo Marks wrote these beautiful verses in Christmas 1943, just after the death of his girlfriend, Ruth, in a plane crash in Canada. Because it was so obscure, the poem was ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende, who lives in Haines, Alaska. Alaska has a Writer Laureate rather than a Poet Laureate and Heather, who has just finished a term in ...

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 ...