NPR's Scott Detrow sat down with poet Kate Baer at Midtown Scholar, a bookstore in Harrisburg, Penn., to talk about her new book of poetry, How About Now.

Poetry can help us to both celebrate life and to face the challenges of this world. When I was 12, my father died of cancer. In those days, people did not talk to children about death like they do ...

Too often, when people think of poetry they think, 'Oh great, another love poem.' Or another nature poem, or another poem rife with socio-political commentary. Well, I'm here to tell you there are ...

Maria Shriver is a dear friend, and one of the most thoughtful people I know. Over the years, I’ve watched her navigate immense joy and deep heartbreak with incredible grace — and now she’s sharing ...

With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry. Two ...

This poem will be my state­ment for a rather abrupt and unex­pect­ed end­ing to my role as the edi­tor of Amer­i­can Life in Poet­ry. The poem is one of resilience — the resilience of my ances­tors ...

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 ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

STANWOOD — Twenty students sat in silence on the auditorium stage waiting to recite poems learned by heart but presented as if the lines were written on the spot. Stanwood High School teacher Ella ...

This Iowan became famous for his writing about farm life and was the first to receive an honorary degree from the University of Northern Iowa. Writer James Hearst (1900-1983) spent his entire life in ...