Sometimes a poem just strikes a precise moment. “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Laméris, feels utterly necessary for our time — a poem celebrating minor, automatic graciousness within a ...

For one thing, small poems, like today’s Poem of the Day by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), are easy to memorize. In fact, Teasdale’s “April” is a particularly portable poem, good for tucking in the pocket ...

The title of “Small Talk” is also a play on words, referring to an earlier book of his poetry, “Light Reading.”He makes good use of that heading by including some smaller poems that are ...

Copper Canyon Press: Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi In their bold debut poetry collection, Akwaeke Emezi—award-winning author of Freshwater, PET, The Death of Vivek Oji, and Dear ...

Poets are people who spell out new languages, word by word, to create a dialect unique to their experience. When I didn’t have a full language to call my own, my poetry became that first real ...

When she was a girl, Lucille Clifton sat on her mother's lap and listened to her recite poetry. Her mother never made it through elementary school, but she knew the power of language, and her ...

Guest writer Jared Goldstein, the associate dean for academic affairs at Roger Williams University School of Law, reflects on the connection between poetry and the Constitution.

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry.

This poem makes me play Smokey Robinson, and think of how the best love cuts into you, ... There is always a challenge in small poems, but when they work, ...

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.

With the preponderance of poetry in the Pioneer Valley from college and university programs to publishers to small-town poetry readings and events, it seems many people must be feeling as if the ...