My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...

Award-winning poet Daniel Lassell discussed the thematic elements and inspiration for his newest poetry collection “Frame ...

A 9-11 memory and poem, from Sister Cashel Weiler of Rochester: Sept. 11, 2001 was my first day of a fall vacation. I live in Saint Marys Convent in Rochester, and glancing at the TV, I thought it was ...

The perfect gift and preschool craft for Thanksgiving with this free Thanksgiving Handprint Poem Printable. Make a fun ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

You are our Sister, a poem by Paul Wittjung Paul Wittjung reads the poem he wrote in memory of Hana Leon, the homeless woman who froze to death Feb. 27 in Syracuse. He read the poem at a memorial ...

A light touch and a wry tone are what readers typically remember from the poetry of Alexander Pope (1688–1744), but he was absurdly talented, a man from whom words poured out in meter and rhyme as ...

Here in April, celebrated annually as National Poetry Month, I’ve been wondering: Is there a truly great poem about the Mississippi River? The question first came to mind last December when a copy of ...