My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

How can it be, with streaming services and cable channels engaged in an all-out arms race for our so-called “entertainment” dollars, that no one has produced reality show about poets? Consider the ...

Rabindranath Tagore’s Where the Mind is Without Fear demonstrates how deeply the concept of freedom is woven into the fabric of Indian poetry. While our discourse on independence often gravitates ...

It’s a speed trap here,” cautioned Arlin Buyert. “You have to watch out, or you can get a ticket.” To avoid breaking the law, Buyert slowed his white pickup truck to a 20-mph-crawl through a quiet ...

NORRISTOWN — The submission window for Montgomery County’s Art And Poetry of Freedom Contest has opened. The fourth annual contest sought to highlight art and poems created by kindergarten through ...

Haters will call it confusing. Famously figurative, poetry remains the most discouragingly mystifying format in the literary sphere. But would those metaphors and similes be more digestible if they ...

Podcast host and teacher Lauran Woolley says she got reported to the Board of Education for reading to her former second-grade class a poem about freedom. Speaking on this week’s episode of Teachers ...

On Saturday, July 11, in spite of the sweltering heat, artists, musicians’ poets, and puppeteers gathered at the Yountville Community Center to share their creations reflecting the expansive word ...