Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...

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 her ...

I’ve read the poems of Jarman, Taylor, and Sealey with gratitude over the last year. They’ve given me pleasure, they’ve given me something good to think about (that is, the poems themselves), and they ...

Whatever emotion you're feeling can be found in poetry. So when life brings you down, turn to these inspirational poems to lift your spirits.

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

University of Dayton English professor emeritus Herbert Martin talks about his life and his new poetry collection The Shape of Regret. English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell ...

“Come See Me in the Good Light” makes viewers hope Gibson and Falley get to spend many tomorrows together. Like Gibson’s poems, this film delivers hope and goosebumps in equal measure.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. This is Marilyn’s second column in the series. Her ...

Heaney wrote not just good poems, but great poems — I'll be keeping his words in my mouth as reminders for the rest of my life.

I am trying to take up more poetry reading in my daily life. Reading new poems can be intimidating, but I figure that the only way to get poetry really wrong is to avoid it altogether.