My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

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 ...

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

As Missouri's 7th Poet Laureate David Harrison celebrates the one-year anniversary of his "Poetry from Daily Life" column, he is already preparing for his next step in promoting poetry in the state ...

At 4:30 p.m. on April 10, award-winning poet Dante Micheaux stood before a gathering of listeners to read his poetry in the Illini Union Bookstore. He is the author of the poetry collections “Circus” ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Poetry on the Salish Sea will present its second Summer Sunday Readings from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. The free annual poetry series will be at Wilderbee Farm and Meadery, 223 Cook ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Yunah Sung, University of Michigan librarian, reads a poem in Korean during “Sing, O Mother Tongue ...

Puerto Rican poet Mara Pastor delivered a poetry reading and discussion to the University of Connecticut community at Susan V. Herbst Hall on April 1. The event was bilingual, with more emphasis on ...