It’s true that writing poetry can be a career (it is for me, but it’s not just that, ... Poetry from Daily Life: You can meet ...

Poetry from Daily Life: You can meet 100 people and only like a few. ... And by poetry, I mean both the poetry you read and the poetry that lives in all of us if only we’re willing to listen.

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.

They meet weekly at the Culver City Senior Center in Culver City, Calif. Hoult is 80. ... Poetry "helped me begin to focus how I felt about losing my son," she says.

Adrian Matejka, Indiana’s poet laureate from 2018-2019, is still trying to figure out Chicago’s bus system. He laughs about missing his bus heading to the Poetry Foundation on Superior … ...

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that ...

It's OK if you find some poetry boring or uninspiring, poet Laura Haskins writes, but keep looking for what you'll like. Poetry from Daily Life: You can meet 100 people and only like a few. Poets ...