Poetry doesn’t rhyme anymore, and the people demand an explanation. There should have been a press release. Or a public referendum. For many of us, a non-rhyming poem resembles a non-alcoholic beer: ...

Since Poetry from Daily Life began Nov. 5, you’ve met poets from Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. We began in one paper — the Springfield News-Leader — now we’re ...

Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems with Parallel German Text Translated by Susan Ranson and Marielle Sutherland Oxford World's Classics, 416 pp., $14.95 paperback The mournfully arch-romantic poetry ...

The high vocabulary score and high prevalence of 'imperfect' half rhymes and unique sentence structure, over and above the use of more traditional and deliberate rhyming couplets, show that rap ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, this is rich. Or, I should say, riche. It seems I am a master poet / Though no one knew I was a poet. Here’s the story: A few months ago I received several junk e-mail solicitations for an ...

The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn For most of us, our first exposure to the joys of verse was when we ...

In a Sand County Almanac, the great American ecologist Aldo Leopold wrote "one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds". John Kinsella's new collection ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...