Life is short, and it’s better to live in the present and make your mark. If you read the full poem, you’ll see these ...

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries. By Stephanie Burt Stephanie ...

From being abandoned by her parents at just four years old to becoming one of the 20th Century’s most iconic figures, Maya Angelou lived an extraordinary life at ... recited a poem at Bill ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington ...

taking your lesson with me. Since his first publication over sixty years ago in a student literary magazine at Cornell University, Joseph Bruchac’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in ...

Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you?

But these are not the reasons that I am writing this review of Life Happens, his second collection of poetry (his first collection, Complicated Lives, was published last year).