Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there ...

These six original works written for The Wall Street Journal by six astute American poets reflect the realities of our lives, but they do so with enough musicality and rhythm to tweak our ...

these platonic love poems about friendship are tailor-made for every type of friend in your life. They’re sweet and packed with love, just what you need to remind your BFF how much they mean to you.

The love of my life played flag football on a team with our sons until ... I have attempted to document this journey, and as a poet, the poems just came about. Below are a series of poems written ...

The book is about, yes, Disneyland, which was a fun subject to play with in these poems as I was, ultimately, telling a larger story about growing older and living life after my parents have ...

So where should you start for the best poems about life and all its ups and downs? Make your way through this list, and you’ll find yourself 20 poems richer. These aren’t just any poems either ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation ... So his is a life in words, but his route to that life was a circuitous ...

So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word.

Inspired by (among others) the DeafBlind poet and essayist John Lee Clark, Colgate unfolds a welcome array of poems about his own queer, complicated, sociable life in New Haven and Toronto ...