One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...

“I can do this one thing, and maybe it will give someone a feeling of not just being seen, but beheld.” Limón told me that many of the poems in her new book, The Hurting Kind, came from a place of ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The actor and writer has been writing poetry all his life. Looking back, he sees similarities in all of his work Lizz Schumer is the ...

SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio teacher published his first book 30 years after he abruptly stopped writing due to discouragement and bullying. Victor Huron is an IT Technology Applications teacher at the ...

SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio teacher published his first book 30 years after he abruptly stopped writing due to discouragement and bullying. Victor Huron is an IT Technology Applications teacher at the ...

And other letters to the editor. As we reported in our April 17 poetry issue, shortly after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, readers began sending verses to the paper — terrible ones, it seems. A ...