I’m David Harrison, Missouri’s 7th Poet Laureate. 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 ...

If there is anything in this life that truly embodies the beauty of rebirth and new beginnings, it’s springtime. Sometimes it comes slow, sometimes it bursts forth suddenly, but springtime always ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

Charleston, SC, Jan. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Melodies from my heart is a heartfelt collection of poems by Melody Lirato, designed to share her thoughts and experiences through the lens of faith.

About ten years ago, I returned to church after a long hiatus. What drove me back to church was not a recovery of earlier beliefs or listeners. Poetry was in the hymns and in the simple words people ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

Alex Dimitrov’s fifth collection, “Ecstasy,” offers a rollicking paean to pleasure. By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City ...

The pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about race, love, ordinary Americans and relatable struggles. These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to his impressive body of ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Josef Kaplan’s poems are suspicious packages. His 2012 collection, “Democracy Is Not For The People” had all the foreboding of an abandoned duffel bag — the poems openly ruminating on assassinating ...