Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

The best books transport readers in ways a plane ... It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.

Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she self-published in her early 40s. She wrote another poetry book in her early 50s, “The ...

Stephen Huebner said he hopes readers are enlightened by his pithy yet informative reflections on ancient writings.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and ... then suspicion was warranted. In both his poetry and his personal life, Frost was a trickster, saying one thing and almost always meaning ...