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 ...

Poetry can help us to both celebrate life and to face the challenges of this world. When I was 12, my father died of cancer. In those days, people did not talk to children about death like they do ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

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.

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 ...

Wanted: A resident poet for Cleveland Heights, a city famed for its devotion to the arts (so many orchestra members, writers and artists live there). The job doesn't pay much -- $500 a year, funded by ...

Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem Renaissance, ...

Reginald Dwayne Betts has one of the more remarkable stories in contemporary literature. After spending more than eight years in prison for a carjacking he committed at 16, Betts earned a graduate ...

Taylor Swift included original poems in each vinyl variant of her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Swift writes about her life as a performer, fiancé Travis Kelce’s impact on her, and the ...