Today’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Scot Young, who grew up in Raytown, Missouri before settling in Ozark County. He has been writing since his junior and high school days. Scot says he ...

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 ...

Most of the time his wife, Margaret, doesn t mind. It gives him something to do, she says. And it amuses the grandchildren. They have seven. Alexander, a retired education professor, is 76 and frail.

Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations. By Elisa Gabbert Poker players have an expression for that moment ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

Poetry Has All My Pain and Love Through the Eyes of a Naive Village Boy, a two-part collection by Adetimilehin Inioluwa ...