Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst ... “So I don’t have to write about the moon?” asks a kid who is obsessed with a certain video game.

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – When Patricia Clark thinks about the fact that her poetry is going to be shipped off to the moon next year ... really stuck with me, it was like burned into my mind ...

“is 5,” the second of poems in that book with the word “moon” in the title. In the poem, the moonlight slips through the window like a lover, her small hands fingering his tie and shirt, “playing with ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Maryfrances Wagner ... the imagist poet who believed a poem could be like a painting — words that provoke a picture and initiate thought.

is like a museum, a library. It's there. It's staying there." Her poem is among movies, music, sculptures, novels and all kinds of art that were chosen from around the world. It will be viewable only ...

My guest this week on Poetry ... ocean. Like John Muir’s cords that bind us to everything in the universe and remind us to love one another. We are more alike than different. her life, and ...

If NASA does find signs of life on its upcoming mission ... That same line made it into the poem, which she ends this way: "O second moon, we, too, are made of water, of vast and beckoning seas.

That time capsule is still flying through space, containing sounds from Earth, like laughter, music and animal noises. Limón’s poem ... the distant moon could support life.

it doesn’t shimmer like the blanket of stars around it. Perhaps we’re fond of it simply because it feels near, and it’s humble in its plainness. It’s ours. In his 2006 poem “Half Moon ...