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 ...

Poetry from Daily Life: Look, listen and write a poem for the world around you. Joseph Bruchac. Special to the News-Leader.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Matt Hoisch, who lives in London though he grew up in Los Angeles, California. Matt is a broadcast journalist whose work has been featured on NPR ...

I'm the daughter of a seamstress. As a child I wrote poems — secretly, in the dark — to the hum of a sewing machine. When I woke, my mother's stack of plain fabric had been transformed; it was ...

Champion to be named at Saturday's Women of the World Poetry Slam 02:08. BALTIMORE -- Seventy-two women from around the world grabbed the mic and voiced their thoughts through carefully crafted ...

The NYC Poetry Fest is Alive and Well at the End of the World, and So Are We The specter of apocalypse feels ever-present, but coming together to celebrate both art and each other reminds us we're ...

The so-called Message in a Bottle project invited people around the world to sign on to the poem. Some 2.6 million will now have their names stenciled onto microchips mounted on the spacecraft.

While World Poetry Day was last week, ... effectively decoupling verse from poetry. Around this same time, Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass, which was the beginning of the free verse tradition.

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.