Emily Dickinson appears once again on our list of poems about life, this time with words that conjure the image of a bird. But don’t read this simply as a nature poem—it has a deeper meaning.

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.

When we make poetry part of our daily lives, we realize we are not alone. Some poet out there felt that way, too! Some poet wrote it down. You, too, can fold your wisdom into a poem.

Stone's fourth poetry collection, What Is Otherwise Infinite, delves deep into this internal search for meaning. And to know what we want from our lives, Stone says we need to get really, really ...

THE STREET OF CLOCKS: Poems. By Thomas Lux. Houghton Mifflin, $22. THE PAINTINGS OF OUR ...

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.

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 ...

I’ll conclude as I did 18 years ago, with a poignant poem by Amelia Earhart Putnam: “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release ...

Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions and surprises, providing room for both ...

It’s a poem about an artist — a woman embroidering an image of tigers in the jungle. Over the course of three stanzas, our attention shifts between the tigers and glimpses of the life and ...