If there is anything in this life that truly embodies the beauty of rebirth and new beginnings, it’s springtime. Sometimes it comes slow, sometimes it bursts forth suddenly, but springtime always ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

That’s the title of one of Nicole Sealey’s many poems about life, death and the search for meaning in her debut poetry collection, “Ordinary Beast.” (It is also the final line of a famous 1942 ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Wanted: A resident poet for Cleveland Heights, a city famed for its devotion to the arts (so many orchestra members, writers and artists live there). The job doesn't pay much -- $500 a year, funded by ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

Reginald Dwayne Betts has one of the more remarkable stories in contemporary literature. After spending more than eight years in prison for a carjacking he committed at 16, Betts earned a graduate ...

Taylor Swift included original poems in each vinyl variant of her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Swift writes about her life as a performer, fiancé Travis Kelce’s impact on her, and the ...