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

There’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

People often put pressure on themselves to crack a poem, unlock its meaning or figure out what the poet was trying to say. Don't do it, says Harryette Mullen, a poet and professor of English at ...

“His poems have almost become a part of my daily ... He smiles and takes a breath before answering, “I don't think I am capable of doing that. I haven't even entertained that idea,” he ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

She settled on the myth of Pygmalion, the 2,000-year-old plotpoint from Ovid’s poem “Metamorphoses,” in which an artist ... that is worthwhile. So far, I don’t think there has been much. “But ...

Florence Pugh has revealed the real reason why she chose not to address the Don't Worry Darling furore back in 2022. The actress played Harry Styles' on screen wife Alice Chambers in the ...

Maybe that provides a skeleton key to unlock the pleasures of Muldoon’s recent poems. Stop trying to parse them. Sing them out loud, instead, and don’t worry about staying in tune. As Muldoon ...

Don’t Worry Darling similarly uses its desert setting as a symbolic ... She was a pioneer of confessional poetry, which focused on extreme moments of individual experience and personal trauma. She ...

Because poetry now competes with other, simpler, easier to consume, commercial forms of expression that don’t involve the intricacies of rhyme, rhythm, meter, simile, sounds, subtexts and metaphor. As ...