Poetry 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 to help you find meaning and make ...

Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

The book is about, yes, Disneyland, which was a fun subject to play with in these poems as I was, ultimately, telling a larger story about growing older and living life after my parents have ...

Not everything I write down will become a poem, but some things will. The Tower blocks are like monsters. I can add to that idea. The Tower blocks are like monsters. Gazing down at us through ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

It has been a wonderful year for Poetry from Daily Life. The first edition of the poetry column appeared in the Springfield News-Leader on Nov. 6, 2023, but 2024 marks our first full year of 52 ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...