When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

In the literary world, she's "off the grid." Kay Ryan, 58, has taught remedial English at College of Marin part time for 33 years. Living quietly in Fairfax, she devoted the bulk of her time to ...

So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word. Choosing a ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.

This short poem grapples with so many themes at once — seeing, being seen, desire, racism, selfhood and memory. The poem starts in a matter-of-fact fashion with a declarative, “I don’t like being ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.