WHO: Texas’s 2024 poet laureate, Amanda Johnston. WHAT: The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for Johnston’s project, Praisesong for the People: Poems Celebrating the Heart and Soul of ...

Leo recited the first poem. He was sipping whiskey, I was nursing a beer, and spirits seem a potion more conducive to declaiming verse. He was 75 years old that autumn evening; I was 34. I'd known him ...

In a world awash in tragedy, it’s easy to overlook the ordinary: the simple beauty of the everyday, the breeze that reminds us to inhale and exhale, the still moments that whisper, “Look. See. Live.” ...

Writing about wine can be complicated for many different reasons. Choosing the right word to describe how wonderful (or unique) a wine tastes or smells or all the other ways wine can stimulate our ...

To dramatize both discovery and clarity in a poem is to write a Poetry of Poise. I wish we saw more of it. This is my theme for 2012. It's not so much that a Poetry of Poise is under attack from ...

I believe I’ve discovered a previously unrecognized genre of contemporary writing that deserves commendation for its distinctiveness and frequent excellence. It’s practiced mainly by contemporary ...

One can claim that literature — especially Catholic literature — is in crisis today. Where is today’s Flannery O’Connor, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Georges Bernanos or Rumer Godden? Poetry, among ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Marjorie Maddox, who lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of the Little League World Series. Marjorie published her first poem in Campfire Girl ...

Praise It never rises to the occasion, never replaces its opposite. You can't exchange it for goods, can't store it as something to have when lost at sea. It's inaccurate (for one thing), hitting the ...

In previous years, Slatehas paid ambivalent heed to National Poetry Month by publishing poems against poetry, or poems in which the poet disparages other people (and their poems), or poems expressing ...