Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and to help you find meaning and make ...

A former editor introduced me to the Poetry Foundation‘s Poem of the Day. His parents were poets—not amateurs who scribbled doggerel on birthday cards, but professionals who published books ...

Viewing the paintings suggests that she has succeeded in this, the poems enhancing the meaning of the abstract paintings by providing some details of this painter/poet’s life.

Poetry from Daily Life: Why stick to one meaning when you can have two (or more)?

In his new anthology, Joy: 100 Poems, the writer Christian Wiman takes readers through the ostensible ordinariness of life and reveals the extraordinary. “We ate, and talked, and went to bed ...

Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, writes David L. Harrison.

I’ve been lately thinking about my life’s time / All the things I’ve done and how it’s been, John Denver sings in the opening line to “Poems, Prayers and Promises.” It’s also ...

I hope to live the life of virtue that great poetry inspires ...

The question concerning the meaning of life should not be taken as unanswerable. It has a reasonable answer and one that should satisfy even skeptics. People often find themselves in a situation ...

Some of the best poetry in the world is written about complicated love, wrong love, toxic love, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day I’ve tried to get over my own hang-ups and share that ...

Hours after @TheRoyalFamily Instagram account unveiled a new portrait of King Charles to commemorate Burns Night—the celebration of the life and work of Scotland's bard, Robert Burns—the ...