Now for something completely different. This week I’m guest-blogging at The Best American Poetry. So much fun! I’ll be putting up here what I wrote over there the day before. By signing up, you ...

Is there something wrong with writing poems about writing poems? And if so, what? My friend Richard Howard was the first person who told me he didn’t approve of that subject, but since he said it ...

When David Harrison originally asked me to write my first column for “Poetry from Daily Life,” I spoke of Harry Bliss’ New Yorker cartoon: he draws a lady introducing her son as a poet. The folks ...

The third book in a series (begun with Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems, also illustrated by Barbour), this picture book collection is a linguistic pleasure. Works by Emily Dickinson, Eve Merriam and ...

Katie Kemple fell in love with poetry as a child, when her father first read to her T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of ...

My guest this weekend on Poetry from Daily Life is William Trowbridge, who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Bill says he came late into writing poetry. He was studying for his PhD comps when he came ...