Ethel Blythe Penningroth, born in Williamsburg on Jan. 13, 1897, lived on a farm east of Iowa City in 1956. She was a homemaker and a lifelong poet who also took time to write letters to children from ...

After all, every poem is a time-machine with the dial set to posterity, heading off into the future, to be read days or decades from now. Simon Armitage’s sonnet ‘Poetry’ is about the ...