My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst ... So when I say, “You are the Boss of Your Poem,” the frisson of freedom that ripples through the group is palpable.

Analysis: The mother’s advice to her son, “Life for me ain’t ... reflects Hughes’s longing for freedom and equality in a ...

This poem is about Aunt Jennifer’s constrained life and eventual death ... the image — and therefore the reality — of her freedom. She accomplishes this through patience and discipline.

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or life, too seriously. As in “Love and Other Poems,” his previous collection, Dimitrov’s man-about-town quality is on full display here, though the tone has shifted somewhat. The poems ...

In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The choices we make in a poem — line length, tone, diction, point-of-view ...

Not much is known about Wheatley’s life before enslavement ... or even find joy in poetry in spite of their lack of freedom. “History is not this binary of Black suffering or Black joy ...

Some poems contain a Grimm’s-fairy-tale-type ... Fox Reveals She Wrote Book About the 'Secrets of Men' in Her Life: 'My Freedom Lives in These Pages' Pretty Boys Are Poisonous explores toxic ...

So far during the course of Poetry from Daily Life we’ve heard about a number of ways in which poets find inspiration for their poems. Taking a walk. Observing. Starting with a single word.

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older ... community in the Appalachian Mountains. In my own life, I am dealing with finding the grace and wisdom ...

The Jennifer's Body actress announced Tuesday that her first book of poems ... my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins." "My freedom ...