Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an ...

It’s not always easy though. Watch this short clip ... but there are things you can do that help. Remember the story the poem is telling. Focus on the rhythm of the poem. Look at the rhyming ...

David Attenborough. Judi Dench. Michael Palin. It’s a rare and illustrious group who make it to ‘National Treasure’ status, ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Julie Clayton. I became aware of Julie through Poetry Out Loud, a national arts education program that encourages the study of great poetry by ...

We had many opportunities to hone these skills, as we were often called upon to recite poetry or give presentations both at home ... Volunteers from Buffalo poured into Erie County on Saturday to ...

We all need to take time out to do things we enjoy, but with the prices of everything increasing, it may feel like it’s impossible to do so. Something as simple as renting a digital movie these days ...

There are lots of stairs — at 976 steps, it’s one of the most stair-intensive — but the sights are so transporting it’s easy ...

Owen, easy question to kick us off ... TESTAMENT: Let's get to our final key point: the endings of these poems. Remember that all the things a poem does with form and structure and language ...

It is about funding but it is also just people being willing to learn and understand, even if they do not go through it themselves. Poetry gives ... I have and it is so easy to feel alone.

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them,” Laurence Binyon wrote. His words in his poem For the Fallen have become ... Registration is a free and easy way to support our ...

Poetry courtesy of Curbstone Books/Northwestern ... understand how the mind is wired to look for such easy patterns to reduce its cognitive load. But there are aberrations which frustrate this ...