Life is a barren field. Frozen with snow. A key figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes wrote about Black life and culture, revealing through his words his people’s music ...

Through television, Moyers connected Americans with poets at street level, an especially valuable gift since few of us get to ...

In her 1840 “I Slept, and Dreamed that Life was Beauty,” she writes a six-line poem, in tetrameter couplets, about how work, a life of duty, can make real the highest of dreams, a life of beauty. Like ...

Life, in all its savage beauty. The first Perillo poem I read was “The Ghost Shirt.” It has a time stamp — “Museum of Natural History, NYC, 5/1/92, the first day of the riots’’ — and ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life ...

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 ...

TRUE LIFE, by Adam Zagajewski.Translated by Clare Cavanagh. The Polish poet Adam Zagajewski’s great poem “To Go to Lvov” has a special importance for many young poets in different languages.