Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...

High Notes of Poetry: Finding Your Courage, offers hope and strength to people facing life’s toughest challenges. After the loss of her father, Ellen turned to poetry. “I felt like my grief ...

Modern life presents unprecedented challenges to mental health, with stress levels reaching alarming heights across all ...

It had taken me all over the world, acting as a kind of therapist, listening to people’s problems ... me the poems that inspired them. Instead, I received messages, from all walks of life ...

And there’s an unbelievably deep or funny poem that goes with it ... genetic disorder leading to a wide range of developmental challenges preventing him from working, caring for himself ...

But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced ... and the ability to overcome challenges. I know this from personal experience as well as from extensive research.

I live with my wife, Sandy, in Springfield, where it is my pleasure to host "Poetry from Daily Life." Since starting the column in November 2023, a growing number of wonderfully talented guests ...

This adaptation underscores the show's central theme of resilience and finding sweetness amidst life's challenges. 2) I Was Going to Get Her a Pearl Necklace and Fly Her on a Plane: This poem ...

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 ...