In a world where we often have less agency than we'd like, poetry offers the freedom and control we crave, Heidi Mordhorst ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and ...

Percival Everett’s “James,” Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” and Diane Seuss’ “Modern Poetry” are among the honorees. Winners will be ...

A Palestinian poet and Vietnamese novelist both living in exile reflect on two revolutionary writers who inspired them.

Open to students of all ages, the competition invited submissions of short poems ... creativity and a unique way to make poetry a part of everyday life in Arlington! The main Moving Words Poetry ...

But sometimes you want to express the rage and sorrow that come with death and also honor the beautiful life that once was ... Some of these are short poems, while others are excerpts from longer ...

The stress freshman year brought was not entirely negative as it allowed me to rekindle my love for poetry. I hope my ...

In Being Reflected Upon, a memoir in verse, the poet moves through the moments of her life with ... from to write her poems. ...

I took to swimming in the morning and writing poetry on a beach towel within a few yards of the Mediterranean. Before that, I ...

It wasn’t until the time he had decorated the interior panels of our front door with red cloud-like shapes that I recalled a poetry reading where I heard Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds ...

Time is running out for writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction to submit works to the annual Tucson Festival of book ...