The hope is for a diverse set of views from those who call the city home, all of them starting the sentence with "My Glasgow is..." (and they can be submitted in any language).

The act of walking is poetry in itself; it has a rhythm and a mix of unfamiliar and familiar paths that lead you to your destination, which stays in your memory, like a poem. You stay, and just ...

The boys don’t wonder—not about her, whom they do not see, or about injuries, which happen all the time. She envies them for their obliviousness. She worships—not too strong a word—their hardening, ...

Earlier this month, the Library of Congress named Santa Fe poet Arthur Sze the nation’s Poet Laureate for 2025-26. Sze will officially begin his term on Oct. 9 with a reading in the Library of ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...

When a land forgets its legends, Sees but falsehoods in the past, When a nation views its sires In the light of fools and liars— ’Tis a sign of its decline, And its glories cannot last. Branches that ...

Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...