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

The poet Benjamin Zephaniah describes how he used to think nurses were women, police were men and poets were boring, until he became one of them! He then performs his humorous poem ‘Clever ...

New collections from Alexandra Teague, Daniel Borzutzky and August Kleinzahler tap into a strain of cultural anxiety.

The late Mike Pride, a Concord Monitor editor on the "poetry beat," describes the lives and works of the New England poets he ...

Over the centuries, poets have often used ancient Greece as their "muse," resulting in some of the most magnificent poems ...

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He suggests as much in his famous essay On Fairy-Stories (1947). As The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien attests, that same dynamic is at play in his poetry as much as his prose. But be ...

October, 2024. Don’t judge! I know it’s Octobermumble mumble (not October 1st)! Doesn’t life sometimes get away from you?

Directed by English dance producer Farooq Chaudhry, "Ten Thousand Tons of Moonlight" is inspired by the poetry of Yu Xiuhua and her unusual life experiences. Yu herself will join another three ...

Stephen Handschu, a sculptor who was born blind, moved from Chicago to New York City. He happened to be friends with a ...