When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

This week’s poetry connection poem comes out of the “Honoring Our Ancestors” workshop that Jillian and I facilitated at the ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

Christina Kubasta is a Wisconsin-born poet and her book, Under the Tented Tree, explores the experiences of Women through ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The city of Riviera Beach hosted a free youth summit Saturday in hopes to provide an artistic and creative outlet by writing poetry. The workshop at the Marina Village was open ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets – often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. Meanwhile, the Lincoln ...

Long before Jessie Reyez was celebrated for her voice, poetry was the Toronto-bred musician's “first love.” The ...