This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

Outspoken Saturdays celebrates the diversity of Boston’s creative scene and reminds us that poetry isn’t confined to the page ...

At school, I would always dread the poetry modules in English, trying to decipher meaning from stale texts and reading out my pained interpretation to a class half-asleep. It was only when I found ...

Many years ago I heard some marvelous advice from the co-director of the UCLA Writing Project, Jane Hancock, about choosing the right words. She was speaking of prose, but I think it’s extra-good ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Rita Dove reads her poem "American Smooth." The arts play an instrumental role in young people's lives. Pursuing creative endeavors helps young people in social, intellectual, ...

For poets and listeners, the voice is not just sound; it marks the shift from silence to meaning. Writing can preserve words, but the voice brings them alive in the moment. When poetry moves from the ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the racial slur several times to tell the story of an unemployed boy named Tom - Paul Popper/Popperfoto John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous ...