Poetry from Daily Life: Read your poem aloud, for a crowd. Make them laugh, think, feel. Gemma Campanini. Special to the News-Leader. ... and writing workshops (where people convene to write poems ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau. She has been a writer for more than thirty years and particularly likes to write contemporary verse novels.

Love is a profound feeling and can’t be described in words. The recipe for a healthy relationship consists of a few ...

Maria Shriver's very first poetry book, 'I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope,' will be released on April 1, 2025. The book is a 'deeply personal' collection of ...

In your book, you write about feeling invisible during various periods of your life, from childhood to adulthood, which is highlighted in the poem “Small.” This is a sentiment many people ...

Therapy How Poetry Can Change Your Life Poetry's creative force can help clarify and unload the issues that plague you. Posted November 19, 2023 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader ...

W hen Covid struck and we were all told to stay at home, I thought my Poetry Pharmacy would come to a halt. It had taken me all over the world, acting as a kind of therapist, listening to people ...

I won’t promise you that memorizing poetry will make your life better, but it will make you more: more in touch with language, with other minds, maybe with what you might yet become.

The academy also offers a K-12 education program, including the Teach This Poem series, the Poem in Your Pocket Day, when people of all ages read, share, post, create art using poetry.