O Life!” is the poem to read when life seems pointless or ... Berton Braley wrote more than 11,000 lines of poetry and ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

In her early work, such as Good Times (1969) and Good News about the Earth: New Poems (1972), Clifton explores the realities of African-American urban life, drawing from her own experiences as a ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems.