The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Constance (Connie) Levy, who lives in St. Louis in a neighborhood of trees, ...

Poet Daniel Johnson wrote "In the Absence of Sparrows" during the 656-day captivity of his close friend, journalist James Foley. on Aug 19, Foley became the first American citizen known to be ...

A friend asked me recently what poetry is for. A somewhat difficult question! Another day, I may have answered differently, but on that occasion, I surprised myself by using the word religion.

Before dinner we five friends (all between 49 and 76) held hands while our host said a blessing. It has always been easy for us to say grace when there are children present.

Mary Margaret Hughes, who got her start in classrooms and on stages in Springfield, writes about how creativity and ...

World Music Day, also known as Fête de la Musique, is celebrated every year on June 21 to honour the healing power and ...

Winners recited their poems for friends, families, and teachers. Steve Metsch is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press. Originally Published: September 19, 2024 at 5:08 AM CDT ...

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life ...

A: As I was writing this, one of my closest friends died, and so I started writing elegy poems to her. She was 39 when she died, and I was feeling devastated at her loss. I started writing to her ...