Last year, Egypt Morgan, 15, accepted an invitation from poet Ian Keteku to be part of a writing project. “He told me, ‘You’re going to make a poem, we’re going to give it to the artist ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.