I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Wherever you are. However you are hurting, or sighing, or rejoicing, I hope you have loving arms to hold you tight, to wrap around you and move you… sit under the sunset and breathe in the cooler air.

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

“I have lived entirely too much of my life in the 19th century!” Randall Fuller laughs. And indeed, all of the Kansas University professor’s previous books explored America’s intellectual landscape ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc. A week ago, I had a column titled “Poems by ...

The city of Boston sparks creative inspiration. From Transcendentalist poetry to “Good Will Hunting,” the city of Boston has moved artists and creators for decades. A connection between 19th century ...

The ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ star says he’s been meditating for 31 years Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. Jean ...

The former president’s preternatural optimism is still powerful—and contagious. But is it justified? Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, and with the greatest respect to my colleague Jeet ...

If you’re in your mid-30s, you may have spent at least some of your youth partying to Lil Jon—anthems like “Let’s Go” with Trick Daddy or “Turn Down for What.” Given those raucous tunes, perhaps you ...