This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...
From romantic to short — we have a plethora of poems that will make her smile and ... While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve! In my heart’s whisper, your name ...
Around the time she turned 60, Hashizume began studying English, something she had been unable to do earlier in life. She went on short-term study ... four atomic bomb poems and the story of ...
There’s a dichotomy when it comes to life. It’s the longest thing we experience, yet it goes by so quickly and feels so short. It’s easy to assume that we’ll have tomorrow, next week and ...
He was dishonest, smelly and short. Not your type at all ... the wretchedness and tedium of ordinary life into the shimmering gold of art. Ten of this poem’s 11 lines — the scholar’s ...
Giovanni was a one-of-a-kind writing talent who tackled everything from racism to love to life and death in her ... born writer and performer. Her poetry collections have sold thousands of copies ...