Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your mood with only a few words, keep you company like… ...

I wanted to write well enough to join in the conversation with poets I admired, famous or not. This element of pride — a good kind of pride — continually lifted my standards and improved my ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Lola Haskins, who lives in Gainesville, Florida. She traces her love of poetry to when she discovered A. A. Milne at the age of four, and she’s ...

Poets Gregory Orr, Hawona Sullivan Janzen, Sam King and Jim Lenfestey will be featured this weekend at Plymouth Congregational Church during Literary Witnesses’ 20th anniversary.