Now Jeffrey Brown has the latest report in a series we call "Where Poetry Lives." He and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey are exploring poetry in various corners of American life, seeking to ...

Wendy Videlock is poet laureate of the Western Slope. Her column, The Barefoot Laureate, will appear every other Sunday in the pages of The Daily Sentinel. A award-winning poet and artist, Videlock ...

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The light of His countenance. I sometimes sign my books with the advice to “stagger onward rejoicing”. This where it comes from. Auden’s poem is about the search for paradise, a paradise that doesn’t ...

First, let me wish you all a Happy National Poetry Month! I hope you will spend some time this month revisiting your favorite poets and poems. Perhaps you will try your hand at writing a poem or two.

Never heard of World Poetry Day? It’s pretty official, having been adopted by no less than UNESCO in 1999. One of the objectives is “to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to ...