Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

How do you start a poem? What if there is no right way? I like to locate in a particular place, which for me, is often the high desert where I live. From there, I’m often writing toward something I ...

Just writing what happens, and knowing a lot of it won’t work and that what works will work not because of technique, mainly, ...

This week's column is written by David L. Harrison, the host of Poetry from Daily Life. David, who lives in Springfield, made up his first poem more than eighty years ago and is currently Poet ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Lauren Camp, who lives in Sante Fe and is the New Mexico Poet Laureate.