My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

Life, in Jaspreet’s world, is not romanticised. It is concrete-hard, ruthless, emotionally exacting — a puzzle that rarely ...

If I ever write a memoir, I'd like to title it "Everything I Know About Life I Learned in a Poem." Of course, the marketing team at the publishing house will likely never allow it — I'm told “poem” or ...

Maria Shriver is a dear friend, and one of the most thoughtful people I know. Over the years, I’ve watched her navigate immense joy and deep heartbreak with incredible grace — and now she’s sharing ...

If there is anything in this life that truly embodies the beauty of rebirth and new beginnings, it’s springtime. Sometimes it comes slow, sometimes it bursts forth suddenly, but springtime always ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In fifth grade, we were all given a copy of a poem to memorize. While the goal of ...

If Basil Bunting were not remembered for “Briggflatts”—his longest and best poem, first published fifty years ago—he might still be remembered as the protagonist of a preposterously eventful twentieth ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Jehanne Dubrow’s most recent book is “Dots & Dashes,” from Southern Illinois University Press. Her husband is a naval officer, and she’s written some very fine poetry about military life. Here’s a ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.