Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On ...

Hundreds of writing workshops into my long career, I'm still amazed by one particular phenomenon: Whenever I give a single writing prompt to a group of people — of any age! — they will always come up ...

Walking has always been for me not just exercise but also a source of inspiration for poetry. Almost every morning, no matter the weather, I walk with my dog along the abandoned log road just down the ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

Ben Neideigh, of Brickerville, didn’t expect to make good on his goal to write poems for a year straight. A handful of Facebook friends liked and commented under the 2014 announcement. There, he ...

Poetry lovers can call 503-928-7008 to hear a new daily poem through the end of April. DeAgostini / Getty Images Anis Mojgani was named Oregon’s poet laureate in April 2020, just weeks after the Covid ...

“Do you wish for the quiet to come + with intimate sweetness spoken in your ear swell within you as the bulbs do before the blooming + so then to give way to the blossom of your heart’s largess?” Then ...