In a poem about life we’d all best remember, Rumi writes of a negative emotion: “He may be clearing you out/ for some new delight.” When negative thoughts start to affect us too much ...

Today, children around the world are still out of school and experiencing the effects of remote learning, lockdown and other "new normals". To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited ...

My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Walter Bargen ... desire to enter authentically into the world and embrace it in new and surprising ways. Emily Dickinson wrote that “My business ...

In Carver: A Life In Poems, Marilyn Nelson challenges readers with a truly new biography of George Washington Carver. Told from multiple perspectives, this breathtaking collection of 59 poems reveals ...