My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Mary Margaret Hughes, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Her introduction to poetry came early when her mother read Shel Silverstein books to her ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve ...

Recognizing the art of proverbs means understanding the rhythm of life itself — capturing moments of wit and wisdom that resonate across time, reminding us of our shared humanity.

The poem goes on to refer to ideas and thoughts transmuted into structures, and contrasts architecture as a celebration of life, art and existence with more ambivalent complexities ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers ...

Often, for me, it’s a single image that really makes a poem, and in this poem by Jeff Worley, from his chapbook Lucky Talk, published by Broadstone Books, it’s “a man conducting an orchestra/ of bees.

How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

“ No one has ever changed his life because of a poem or song,” he says in a chapter on metal, with reference to Blake, Milton, Rilke, William Empson, Peter Sloterdijk, Ozzy Osbourne, and Kant.

Maria Shriver Announces 'Deeply Personal' Poetry Book: 'It Started When I Was in a Dark Place in My Life' 'I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit ...