And a lot of times, you hear people say, poetry saved my life. And, in most cases, they're not lying. You know, if they didn't have that outlet, who knows what else they would have done?

Poetry can free your mind and give you new perspective. Poems that can make you a better person: “Phenomenal Women,” Maya Angelou; “If,” Rudyard Kipling It changes the way you see the world.

Poets Gregory Orr, Hawona Sullivan Janzen, Sam King and Jim Lenfestey will be featured this weekend at Plymouth Congregational Church during Literary Witnesses’ 20th anniversary.

I am a child sitting at my wooden flip-top desk in my fourth-grade classroom listening to Miss Hudson read “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost’s poem about two paths and a crossroad.

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.

Jill Bialosky draws the epigraph for her ninth book, “Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir,” from the poem “Dedication” by Czeslaw Milosz, which asks: “What is poetry … ...

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 ...

Where people who are puzzled by poetry go wrong, he thinks, is in expecting poems to say something straightforward about life, to be useful. Poems are really about language—ultimately, about the ...

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 ...