Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

In this week's column, author Lesléa Newman offers some advice for overcoming the anxiety that stems from struggling to start ...

"I think it's nice to pool from poetry into my day ... "Sometimes it's not simply what I can make of my life that becomes a poem, but it's what I can take from a poem that will make my life ...

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets ... emerged from “democracy in contact with Puritanism,” to use a nice phrase that George ...

Olivia's poetry proved to be especially poignant as ... as George cleared a woodland space at Friar Park, ushering in new life even as his body began to fade. In his final moments, Olivia writes ...

There have been compromises too as ‘War’ articulates – “She’s … just an ordinary woman/ with a cowardly heart” But, on the whole, the poems breathe gratitude to life and are ...