On Spotlight Poetry's fifth anniversary, three members reflect on the nonprofit group's creative community work.

I’m David Harrison, Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate. I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November 2023, a ...

Today’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Scot Young, who grew up in Raytown, Missouri before settling in Ozark County. He has been writing since his junior and high school days. Scot says he ...

When David L. Harrison asked a number of us to write a column about “Poetry from Daily Life,” I thought of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: He draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Nobody’s Life Is Easy”: Maria Shriver on Poetry, Vulnerability, and Starting Over Maria Shriver is a dear friend, and one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

In her wonderful article in the Mountain Mirror last month, Carol Lannon let us know the month of April is National Poetry ...

Jane Freilicher, "One Cat, Two Fish" (1974), oil on canvas, 50 x 63 inches (all images courtesy Pamela Salisbury Gallery) HUDSON, New York — I am a sucker for exhibitions with the word “poetry” in the ...

Instead, I pivoted hard onto the environmental sciences track. Sure, it felt urgent and necessary in our current climate of ...

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems of ...