A woman who started her own writing business after impressing guests at her wedding with personalised poems, now writes in rhyme for several famous faces. Jess Douglas, 29, from Yorkshire, was trying ...

I hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix of voices ...

POETRY has always carried a reputation as the cod liver oil of American culture: It’s good for you, but you swallow it only if you absolutely have to. So it’s mildly curious, and mildly encouraging, ...

I asked people to send in their thoughts. Most agree with Campbell. This does not surprise me. Over the years I’ve had feedback from readers who would like more rhyme in the poems we run. At the risk ...

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 ...

Today, cowboy poetry has begun to embrace digital platforms as well, allowing poets to reach broader audiences through websites, social media, podcasts, and online publications. While rooted in ...

Literary discourse is usually distinguished from conventional expressions of speech and writing. Whether poetry is intuitive or not is a debatable issue. However, there’s no doubt that when poets are ...

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power ...

I think I've always been a poet. Even when I thought as a teenager that I would grow up to be a best-selling novelist, I sought out layers to peel off my phrasing; I sought out words that travel ...