Themes of longing, loneliness and the power of love — romantic, familial and self-love — are constant throughout Maria ...

Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Alex Dimitrov, in his ...

Val Kilmer's world as an artist stretched far beyond his renowned leading man roles. In addition to his Hollywood stardom, ...

So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and you’ll find yourself 20 poems richer. These aren’t just any poems either ...

It’s one of those classic short poems about life that can change the way you think. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. One of America’s most famous poets, Langston Hughes was a key ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Spring break has officially dawned for most high school students throughout the Yakima Valley, barely more than two weeks after the spring season itself officially broke on the calendar.

Poet and author Charles Ghigna shares the story of a poem he wrote after waking up to his infant son's babbling over a nursery monitor.

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

BYU professor of English Lance Larsen has been writing poetry for four decades. His poems are regularly published in leading ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

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 ...