My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

In this moving elegy to his infant daughter, Saddiq Dzukogi reminds us of how complex grief can be. The body’s responses to grief offer a way for us to cope with its deep pain. Here, the poem, “So ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — “Love, Life and Mother Nature: Picture Book of Poems” (ISBN: 978-1834182124 released September, 2025 by Tellwell Publishing) by James ...

We're going to ask Mosab Abu Toha to read the beginning of his poem "Younger Than War." MOSAB ABU TOHA: (Reading) Tanks roll through dust, through eggplant fields. Beds unmade. Lightning in the sky.

What traditions give life and meaning to a people? Where do dreams come from that move a people forward? Memories stored in mind and in heart preserve identity. Traditions allow community to celebrate ...

When senior Lucy Chuang learned of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, she opened her poetry journal. In the days that followed, she wrote several poems dedicated to the Asian women who were killed.

Last night, when I was looking for a subject for this column, but didn’t know which one, I was lucky enough to receive this request from Guanaíra Amaral, on the other side of the world, from Oceania: ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Image: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images About 18 months ago, at age 79, I gave ...

“Poetry is life distilled,” said longtime Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. This is concise; but what does it mean? It means, as I understand it, that poetry is a place where the rich ...