This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Jane Yolen, who divides her time between Hatfield, Massachusetts; Mystic, Connecticut; and Scotland. Jane began writing in 2nd grade and published her ...

From ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ a play whose speeches are full of poetry, and more than that: full of a writer’s palpable delight in making poetry, the deep pleasure of giving characters poetry to ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

The city of Charleston's standing poet laureate is celebrating National Poetry Month, which falls during April, by reciting a poem every day of the month via a video on social media. The videos ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

Today’s Poem of the Day commemorates the September 7 birthday of the American poet Elinor Wylie (1885–1928). In her marvelous poem “A Crowded Trolley Car,” Wylie has an observing passenger meditate on ...

For National Poetry Month, Oregon's poet laureate is bringing "the electric illumination of our collective human experience" directly to the... Call this hotline to listen to a new poem each day for ...

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 through the eyes ...

For years, I've devoted 10-30 minutes to journaling every morning. But in 2022, I wanted to elevate my morning routine to an art form. I wanted to have a complete draft of a piece so that I could ...