Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Lee Kuan Yew's maxim that poetry was an unaffordable luxury was of its time. These days it is widely appreciated, and not ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

He says that poetry offers an “invitation back into the world,” to confront the difficult and to help grapple with life both speakable and unspeakable while finding joy in the process. Whyte ...