Poetry might seem the exclusive purview of ivory tower types — those whose heads are up in the clouds when not buried between the pages of dusty books. Indeed, poet Major Jackson is an intellectual ...

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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 ...

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 through the eyes ...

A brisk little essay by Jim Holt in the New York TImes tells of the ease with which verse can be burned into one’s cortex: [T]he key to memorizing a poem painlessly is to do it incrementally, in tiny ...

Marina Diamandis, the indie-pop singer-songwriter previously known as Marina and the Diamonds, has never been afraid to pursue alternative ventures. She’s dabbled in floral design, studied psychology, ...

“I am less inclined to imagine a future for my students in which poetry has been restored to its rightful freedom as pure pleasure.” The lament is familiar: poetry is now a subsidiary of the academy.

Poet and educator, Glenn North has worked for decades making it his mission to inspire and encourage the next generation of poets in the metro. Mara Williams Editor's Note: This interview is part of ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full of reflection and digression and probing. By David Orr David Orr is the ...