I asked people to send in their thoughts. Most agree with Campbell. This does not surprise me. Over the years I’ve had feedback from readers who would like more rhyme in the poems we run. At the risk ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...

The poetry of John Neihardt — and his love of rhyme and verse — will take center stage at the 45th annual Neihardt Spring ...

Acclaimed poet Ruth Carr reflects on memory, motherhood and resilience, weaving ordinary experiences into striking poetry ...

Literary discourse is usually distinguished from conventional expressions of speech and writing. Whether poetry is intuitive or not is a debatable issue. However, there’s no doubt that when poets are ...

It’s Poetry Month and you’re on the look, so why not seek out one of these books? Books for Poetry Month by various authors c ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, now I suppose is as good as any time to talk to you about poetry and rhyme. Does a poem have to ...

After a couple of students used a sonnet to take a swipe at Tesco, we look back at the often strained relationship between poets and superstores In 1956, Allen Ginsberg’s poem A Supermarket in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...