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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Jane Yolen, who divides her time between Hatfield, Massachusetts; Mystic, Connecticut; and Scotland. Jane began writing in 2nd grade and published her ...

“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 ...

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 ...