Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...

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.

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 ...