When you grow up reading voraciously, you often develop a tendency to write. While most people write prose and that too fiction, some however opt for a different genre to express themselves, ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

Faith stirs the spoken word poetry. As a teen, Amena Brown listened to hip-hop and dreamed of being the next Lauryn Hill; she even had a stage name, "Teknique." But she never could quite make her ...

Every poem has structural features that have a bearing on the way the poem sounds or what it means. To comment on the structure of a poem is just the same as commenting on its language – you notice ...

Friday night, Marilyn Nelson is playing host to a poetry party called the “The Poet Laureate’s Lyricists” at Mamacita’s Restaurant in Hartford. Connecticut’s poet laureate has assembled an eclectic ...

In the fourth part of a series on establishing a book collection for children in the Foundation Stage, Judith Stevens considers rhythmic and rhyming stories Every early years setting needs a wide ...