The US poet laureate on nature, the art of America, and her new anthology. Ada Limón is currently serving a second term as the United States’ 24th poet laureate. She is the author of six poetry ...

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 through the eyes ...

Jerome Rothenberg says that since he was a child, some form of poetry “was always in the air,” and he could create his own songs and rhymes in response to what he was hearing. As an adult, he’s spent ...

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It’s almost a job requirement for poets: accept the fact of being far removed from mainstream artistic culture. We poets are happy—ecstatic, really—to cultivate a few hundred thoughtful readers, and ...

Galway Kinnell was born in 1927 in Rhode Island. Feeling, after college, "a certain scorn that there could be a course in writing poetry," as he put it, Kinnell did not go on to study poetry and ...

Seamus Heaney was born in Northern Ireland in 1939. His earliest years were spent on his parents' 50-acre farm in County Derry. At the age of 12, Heaney earned a scholarship to a Catholic boarding ...

Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola is the "dreamer" of the first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival. (Courtesy Button Poetry) The first-ever Roxbury Poetry Festival will take place Saturday, June 5. The ...