Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn ... see more and more things going on under the surface.

Szymborska in 1996 (Reuters) A wonderful teacher once broke down the word ... change the music of the poem, or its resonance. In one of my favorites, “Under One Small Star” (translated ...

The Grammy-nominated singer is famous for her candor and confessional songwriting, and several poems contain lines that would later become lyrics. "A lot of the time when I sit down to write I'm ...

And I go back to these poems to remember that if we ... Thought at first that grief had brought him down. His wife dead, his own hand dug the grave under a willow oak, in family ground — he ...

More than 30 poets conjure island life-the sea, storytelling, food, nature and the experience of travelling away from home-in Under the Moon & Over the Sea: A Collection of Caribbean Poems ...