I’m David Harrison, Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate. I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November 2023, a ...

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 memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

The new book of poems by Ann Mirabile Lees, “We Are All Seatmates on the Spaceship Earth,” is an enchanting collection written since her first book appeared in 2012. This new book contains 62 poems in ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I ever write a memoir, I'd like to title it "Everything I Know About Life I Learned in a Poem." Of course, the marketing team ...

Poet Annette Billings with her newest poetry collection. Annette Billings says poetry isn’t about precious kittens and pretty flowers. Rather, she says, the form often calls for much harder, more ...

Poets Alan Shapiro (left) and Jonathan Farmer (right) discuss the communal nature of poetry. Poetry has always been at the center of the friendship between Alan Shapiro and Jonathan Farmer. They met ...

If there is anything in this life that truly embodies the beauty of rebirth and new beginnings, it’s springtime. Sometimes it comes slow, sometimes it bursts forth suddenly, but springtime always ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Poets can bring the beauty of nature to life with their words. On your next hike, bring some poetry with you, and enjoy your time on trail in a new way. To get you started, here are six hikes, paired ...

Poets Alan Shapiro (left) and Jonathan Farmer (right) discuss the communal nature of poetry. Poetry has always been at the center of the friendship between Alan Shapiro and Jonathan Farmer. They met ...