My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry. Two ...

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" — marking a full year of weekly columns — is Lola Haskins, who lives in Gainesville, Florida. She discovered her love for poetry when she was read AA ...

This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Ellen Hopkins, who lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She has been a writer for more than 30 years and particularly likes to write contemporary verse ...