This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was 7 or 8 years old and was first published in 2006.

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

In honor of the city's bicentennial, Jacksonville poet laureate Andy Mitchell is writing a series of poems centered on the ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Allan Wolf, who lives in Asheville, North Carollina. Allan discovered the power of writing when he was 12 years old and began to write on his ...

The poem is a story, the memory of a story and a reflection of that memory all at once. Told in six stanzas, the poet speaks about going out into the snow with their younger brother.

There are no rules to this game, which I call Word of the Month Poetry Challenge. The idea is to examine the word of the month, probe for its secrets, its stories, choose one, and write about it.

Life Isn’t Perfect. But This Poem Might Be. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work.

Poetry is all around us What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio.

The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view, etc. — are the poem. Together they make the poem what it is, so that changing one thing changes everything.

Perhaps you are a poet yourself. Tell us about how poetry has impacted your life, and you could be featured in an upcoming edition of the Up First newsletter.