My guest this weekend on Poetry from Daily Life is William Trowbridge, who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Bill says he came late into writing poetry. He was studying for his PhD comps when he came ...

Now for something completely different. This week I’m guest-blogging at The Best American Poetry. So much fun! I’ll be putting up here what I wrote over there the day before. By signing up, you ...

Over winter break, I began writing poems. This was unusual behavior for me. As I wrote in one such poem, “When I first met the poem / I remember hating it more than the illness that was in my body at ...

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. When they become public, acts of collaboration in poetry are more private than it might seem. As with all collaborations across the arts, ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

It’s easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of various sorts, ...