In the welcome re-issue of “Old Poets: Reminiscences & Opinions” (Godine), the late poet Donald Hall who died at his farm in New Hampshire in 2018 at age 89, recounts an astonishing array of ...

All poetry tells a story, but not all storytelling is necessarily poetic. When it comes to two new collections of poetry from local authors Adam Deutsch and Manuel Paul López, they each have divergent ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

A fiction writer turned poet, a ghost writer of sixty books, Mitch Sisskind, without losing his humor, has lived a writer’s life. A spiritual person, Sisskind finds cosmological joy in the human ...

When I prepare myself for bed. As a teenager, I was taught that poetry should be more serious. It was art – and art took itself seriously. Even now, poems designed to make us laugh are often dismissed ...

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Winter Poetry Festival is a gathering for local artists to share their best, most personal and wackiest poems with the Madison community. This eight-week festival ...

Maya Angelou, considered one of the best poets in history, signs copies of "Maya Angelou: Letter to My Daughter" at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on October 30, 2008 in New York City. Poetry is a ...