Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende ... since even though it was early — 5:30 p.m., it is so dark now in Alaska that my head lamp doesn’t light beyond my boots.

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

When we toast these admirable lassies, as Burns reminds us, we celebrate the full range of human experience, the heroic in ...

This week, eleven high school students from Mariposa County participated in the county final for the Poetry Out Loud National ...

When multiple Oscar nominee Chris Sanders took on adapting Peter Brown’s beloved children’s book, “The Wild Robot,” he wanted ...

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

My wife and I have not had sex for the last four years. I’m not a perfect husband. I have made my share of mistakes — not always telling the truth, texting other women — and she has her share of ...

Throughout history, poets have captured the essence of love, desire, longing, and devotion in their verses. Romantic poetry ...