Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Nobody’s Life Is Easy”: Maria Shriver on Poetry, Vulnerability, and Starting Over Maria Shriver is a dear friend, and one of the ...

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 ...

In her wonderful article in the Mountain Mirror last month, Carol Lannon let us know the month of April is National Poetry ...

Poetry can literally give you chills. A Free Press intern explains why — and how to start reading it without fear.

Today’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Scot Young, who grew up in Raytown, Missouri before settling in Ozark County. He has been writing since his junior and high school days. Scot says he ...

April is National Poetry Month, and this month, The Breeze is highlighting poet Denise Duhamel, a Woonsocket native who has ...

Today I’m here with the tiniest pep talk, in case you need one. This one’s as much about saying no as it is about saying yes. In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

Decades ago, my friend Caetlin received a peculiar assignment from the poet Robert L. Hass, who was then her undergraduate literature professor. He instructed each student to memorize three poems of ...

David Duchovny is known to audiences for his iconic roles in "Californication" and "The X-Files." He's now turning his attention to something more intimate: poems that wrestle with love, loss, memory ...

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 the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...