The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and inspiration can snowball.

Snapshots of life. Poems are multi-splendored things. What poetry is doesn’t matter as much as what it does. Expectations and perceptions differ from reader to reader, from need to need.

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 ...

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 ...

Tariq Alexander Qaiser is a distinguished, award-winning architect and a celebrated ecologist, filmmaker, photographer and author. His third book, and his first poetry collection, Soliloquies ...

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. July 25, 2024. 9 min ...

I won’t promise you that memorizing poetry will make your life better, but it will make you more: more in touch with language, with other minds, maybe with what you might yet become.

The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford offers for the first time a comprehensive study of Stanford's life and work, introducing to a broad readership poetry that remains both captivating to poets and, ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and ...