This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Rita Dove reads her poem "American Smooth." The arts play an instrumental role in young people's lives. Pursuing creative endeavors helps young people in social, intellectual, ...

Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

The word “anthology” comes from the Greek for “gathering of flowers”—that is, a miscellany. No anthology will completely ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the racial slur several times to tell the story of an unemployed boy named Tom - Paul Popper/Popperfoto John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous ...