No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are connected and what they have in common. Try it yourself.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942, Cassius Marcelus Clay Jr. rose to fame as a remarkable athlete, clinching the gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, but also as a staunch advocate for social ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Allan Wolf, who lives in Asheville, North Carollina. Allan discovered the power of writing when he was 12 years old and began to write on his ...