My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

Do you gravitate toward inspirational poems or stanzas of sorrow? Whatever emotion you’re feeling can be found (and often better expressed) in poetry written by people like you who’ve ...

A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about Black life and culture, revealing through his words his people’s music ... If your idea of lighthearted poetry begins ...

Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...

Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...

While Judy Shepard often travels to cities small and large for advocacy work, it is the calmness of her Wyoming home that always pulls her back. It’s to that vast, remote expanse that she often must ...

“People say poets are mad,” Maria Stepanova writes in her new book-length poem, “Holy Winter 20/21 ... I felt that it gave us ...

Margaret Atwood is known for writing books like "The Handmaid's Tale," stories about a near future where everything has gone wrong. But at 84 years old, she is also looking to the past these days. She ...

but I want to start just by giving people a taste of what kind of poems these are. The first section is love poems. A lot of them are very funny love poems. Would you read us "Someone To Eat Chips ...

Remembering Tim Richardt: a story of biking, community, and strength in the face of ALS, told through his Eden Prairie ...