Springfield poet Gemma Campanini likes to have a friend record her when she reads poems publicly — to improve and to see the effect she had.

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

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.

It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like.

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 ...

How memorizing poetry can expand your life I was always a reluctant reader of poetry, but memorizing a poem every week gave me a new understanding of myself.

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 ...

I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems on Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home, is available now wherever books are sold. The post “Nobody’s Life Is Easy”: Maria Shriver on Poetry ...

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.

How a poem a day can ease life’s pain and help us through the hardest times From war to weather extremes, loneliness and digital overload, has there ever been a more challenging time for the ...

The therapeutic effects of poetry can help patients, mental health professionals, and poets themselves.