Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about Black life and culture, revealing through his words his people’s music ...

30 Poems About Life That Will Change How You See the World. ... Read the full thing, and you’ll soon see that this poem is about living a good life. In the span of a few lines, ...

Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your mood with only a few words, keep you company like… ...

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 ...

English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell.” His latest collection, The Shape of Regret ($16.99, Wayne State University Press), includes this line spoken by the ghost of poet ...

“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. Read more ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Rebecca Kai Dotlich, who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. Rebecca began to find the fun and magic in words as a child and her ally was her dad, who ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Lola Haskins, who lives in Gainesville, Florida. She traces her love of poetry to when she discovered A. A. Milne at the age of four, and she’s ...

10-year-old writes beautiful poem about life with Aspergers. Benjamin's father said he and his wife were brought to tears when they read the poem. Samuel Osborne. Wednesday 13 April 2016 20:46 BST.

That’s the title of one of Nicole Sealey’s many poems about life, death and the search for meaning in her debut poetry collection, “Ordinary Beast.” (It is also the final line of a famous ...