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Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.
And it’s that magic that I strive for when sharing my poetry with the world.” In short, no matter what you’re going through in life (bad and good), it’s nice to know that there’s someone ...
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 ...
Baez has written poetry for years ... “Because it’s nice to see someone’s trajectory from nervousness to letting everything happen on life’s timeline. It was life’s timeline.
Life flashes past. Poems are signposts along the way. Love, sex, motherhood, divorce, dementia, death – there will be a verse for all the biggies. When I was six, our class were all entered for ...
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 ...