Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

What kind of love poems are you in the mood for? T hroughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

It is likely what Safiya Sinclair means in her elegant poem “The Ragged and the Beautiful,” published in the always engaging “immigrant and refugee” journal, The Bare Life Review ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

English cryptographer Leo Marks wrote these beautiful verses in Christmas 1943, just after the death of his girlfriend, Ruth, in a plane crash in Canada. Because it was so obscure, the poem was ...

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 ...