Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Alex Dimitrov, in his ...

Maria Shriver, known to many as a member of the illustrious Kennedy family or as the former first lady of California, offers a deeper insight into her life through her newly released collection of ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...