My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

Noa has always been fascinated by the intersection of music, language and race. This passion led her to study jazz poetry — a genre in which poetry’s rhythms and cadences merge seamlessly with musical ...

The poem Landscape and I by Norman MacCaig explores MacCaig's love and respect for the sublime power of nature. He covers an number of ways that nature communicates. The poem reminds us to soak nature ...