April is National Poetry Month, so I’ve selected two poetry books that publishers have sent me recently that stood out to talk about this week. In each case, the primary audience is younger people, ...

Doris Dunker was a fledgling poet growing up in Baltimore when she discovered the whimsical verses of Baltimore’s Ogden Nash. His style has had a lifelong influence on her poetry. Now, the Severna ...

Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most important poets in French literature (he also made a name for himself as a literary and art ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. This is Marilyn’s second column in the series. Her first ...

Dianna Henning, a well-regarded Northern California poet, represented in The Sacramento Anthology: 100 Poems (2001), and ...

him, twitching still, onto my Welcome Mat, flicking him in the ditch across the road. All day, as if in pain, my old cat yowled, glaring at me with flat, accusing eyes. “Our bond,” he seemed to say, ...

I chose this line from Carl Sandburg’s poem as the title for a University of Arizona OLLI course I teach because it shows how a poem can come softly padding into your life and take you by surprise, ...

It has been said that living with a cat is a lot like living in a perpetual poem. I can attest to this, in fact, there are times I find myself entirely absorbed simply watching either of our two cats ...