This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Rita Dove reads her poem "American Smooth." The arts play an instrumental role in young people's lives. Pursuing creative endeavors helps young people in social, intellectual, ...

Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the racial slur several times to tell the story of an unemployed boy named Tom - Paul Popper/Popperfoto John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Poetry about American football has been largely underwhelming. The type of verse you’re likely to find if you search “football poems” is the sort that rhymes “feet” with “defeat” and “run” with “#1.” ...