Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Joseph Bruchac, who lives in Greenfield Center, New York. Joe has been writing since his 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Monthony, praised one of his ...

In 17th-century English poetry, lustful swains (often shepherds, for some reason) are always beseeching their beloveds to “make much of time” and get busy. Andrew Marvell, whose couplets we ...

He has also been busy ... poems now keep might be through sound or affect as much as thematic or formal connection. Where Brooks and Jones intersect is their detailing of everyday and intimate ...

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 ...

He is now retired. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to [email protected] with the subject line "Poetry submission." ...