This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

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 ...

The new book of poems by Ann Mirabile Lees, “We Are All Seatmates on the Spaceship Earth,” is an enchanting collection written since her first book appeared in 2012. This new book contains 62 poems in ...

I write a poem a day (sometimes more) for three reasons. First for finger exercises that wake up both fingers and brain. Second, I use it observationally, and by that, I mean to sharpen my ...

Vendler cast her searching eye on individual poems by great poets in the final work of her life, Inhabit the Poem: Last ...

The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April 1996 to celebrate the role of poets and poetry in American culture. Since then, it's become one of the largest literary ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is credited as one of the first influential ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries. By Stephanie Burt Stephanie Burt ...

Robert Frost presented himself as a simple man. Not for him the literary circles of London or the stilted dinner parties of Brahmin Boston. Nor was he at home in academia. He dropped out of college ...