My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

As Poetry from Daily Life draws to a close, News-Leader editor Amos Bridges weighs in on the virtue of short and to the point ...

When we were both young and unknown poets, Patricia Lockwood had a blog with the tagline “Poems Are Jokes.” For years, this phrase has come back to me, when I hear an especially poetic joke or read an ...

LANSING — Masaki Takahashi's car broke down one day not long after he graduated from Michigan State University, and he needed a job right away. So he walked across the street and into a car dealership ...

April is National Poetry Month, and that gives us a chance to celebrate creative words and ideas. For kids, there is poem style for every personality. These new books include poetry collections that ...

Vanity Fair books columnist Sloane Crosley, former “Late Night with David Letterman” writer Nell Scovell and NPR’s “Ask Me Another” host Ophira Eisenberg, will appear Thursday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m.

Poetry has a reputation for being all-serious all-the-time. But it doesn't have to be that way, says poet Richard Blanco. "Poetry is by nature sort of centered on this sense of gravitas and what-not," ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

New Arcana (Bloodaxe £12) is Jessica Traynor ’s striking, ambitious elegy for an old school friend who died by suicide and ...

Leslie Mann plays a woman auditing a poetry class and Cooper Hoffman and Andrew Barth Feldman the students vying for her ...