In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

Springfield poet Dottie Joslyn writes about using poetry to help unlock emotions people might have difficulty discussing otherwise.

or life, too seriously. As in “Love and Other Poems,” his previous collection, Dimitrov’s man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...