For years, poetry was said to be fading into the background — confined to slim volumes on dusty shelves or to academic circles far removed from everyday life. Yet across Europe, and increasingly in ...

What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

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 ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

The Poetry Foundation is also the publishers of Poetry Magazine, and thus route out the best poems to spread to a wide audience. Using their website just a little bit, one can find poems on a wide ...

Today I’m here with the tiniest pep talk, in case you need one. This one’s as much about saying no as it is about saying yes. In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a ...

Sangita Swechcha of Global Voices interviewed Mani Lohani about his long career in writing and television journalism, his ...

The Virginia poet Anne Spencer (1882–1975), one of three African-American women included in the 1973 “Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry,” struck a uniquely Romantic note among the voices of the Harlem ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...