AOL: Poetry from Daily Life: Explore and never color inside the lines
PBS: In 'I Brought the War with Me,' Lindsey Hilsum shares poetry inspired by the front lines
In 'I Brought the War with Me,' Lindsey Hilsum shares poetry inspired by the front lines
Poetry is not a practical thing. It's inefficient. It leaves too much space on the page. Its lines are uneven and unpredictable. Its edges are sharp as shards of glass, and what are shards of glass ...
The Portland Press Herald: Read the poem ‘Contour Lines’ by Kyle Dancause
Megan Grumbling is a poet and writer who lives in Portland. Deep Water: Maine Poems is produced in collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. “Contour Lines” ©2025 by Kyle Dancause, ...
To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do poems make us feel things," writes .
This year, National Poetry Month brings an ambitious collaboration: a cross-country relay race of 54 poets contributing to one poem about America. The practice is known as renga, an ancient Japanese ...
As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...
Springfield News-Leader: Poetry from Daily Life: A poem about a tick or termite? Sure can, if the rhyme is right