This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

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 ...

Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Love has always found its purest expression in poetry. Through verses, we capture emotions that sometimes words alone cannot describe—the heartbeat of affection, the sweetness of intimacy, and the ...