Baseball, its late commissioner Bart Giamatti once observed, is designed to break one’s heart. Indeed, the game’s most iconic poem recounts not the home team’s triumphant victory or the exhilaration ...

KENT, Ohio – Nearly a decade ago, Valora Renicker, an associate professor of visual communication design at Kent State University, invited her colleague David Hassler, director of Kent State’s Wick ...

Lord Byron (1788–1824) gave five different poems the title “Stanzas for Music” — simply as a generic name by which he meant either that he heard the rhythm of a melody while he wrote the poems, or ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our ...

O, yes, we honor Marianne Moore’s take on poetry--”there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle”--and, yes, we, too, dislike the gimmicky naming of months. But April is National Poetry ...

American poet and novelist, Dan Fante, wrote of first discovering Van Gogh, in his poem 7-17-93. A moment captured in time, an externalization of the internal, something abstract and vague. One can ...

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My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Amos Bridges, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. I’m especially happy to hear from Amos because he’s the editor-in-chief for the Springfield ...