My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...

In this moving elegy to his infant daughter, Saddiq Dzukogi reminds us of how complex grief can be. The body’s responses to grief offer a way for us to cope with its deep pain. Here, the poem, “So ...

Content warning: The following piece includes mentions of suicide and sexual violence. Poetry, like the other arts, takes many forms that lead to many different ends. Some say that poems are good for ...

and seek out something more lively. These words gesture toward memoir and their irony is poignant, as it is difficult to imagine finding something livelier than memory, at least the way Lea explores ...

When senior Lucy Chuang learned of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, she opened her poetry journal. In the days that followed, she wrote several poems dedicated to the Asian women who were killed.

Sara Whym explores grief, identity, and creative awakening through a hybrid narrative of dreams, memory, and emotional ...

Memory is strange. Maggie Smith has struck on one of its amazing qualities — that each occurrence, each memory, adds to the previous ones as if we had put them in folders. And we revise as we go, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Image: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images About 18 months ago, at age 79, I gave ...

Jim Eagle was a lifelong lover of poetry, favoring traditional rhymes to free verse and preferring brevity to epic length. His favorites included Rudyard Kipling and Khalil Gibran. Eagle learned he ...

I met Robert Yeo of Singapore at the International Writing Program in Iowa City in 1978. We shared a unit at the Mayflower ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected by Victoria Chang I always remember these lines in Jay Hopler’s debut book ...