But, that said, write your poems according to your voice, sensibilities and feeling for fun! My own inspiration comes not so much from sitting at my desk but from getting out and about ...

“I had quit social media for a minute, and I had a lot of stillness, which is a necessary place to write from for music and poetry ... and she drew a lot of inspiration from vintage photographs ...

Thanksgiving poems full of gratitude Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the ...

What does poetry look like in ... Consider a strange form of writing...where the words on the page are but the first step to an end product that is not based in words at all! The screenwriter uses ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

The 2024 Mic Check Poetry Fest, billed as a two-day celebration of spoken word and its power to bear witness, create ...

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 ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with the words “Sing, daughter of Zeus” in the first lines of his epic poem ... source of inspiration. Though writing ...

Studio Ghibli movie to bring your kids along to. Unless you want to eternally scar them with the grisly consequences of war ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...

His comments are accompanied by a reading of the poem, mixed with images ... his inspiration for the poem, some of the unusual vocabulary within it and the responsibility he feels to write a ...