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 ...

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 ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...