Life is short, and it’s better to live in the present and make your mark ... Like many of Shakespeare’s other works, this is ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

In my memoir "You Could Make This ... and inspire me. Love. Art. Community. That’s it. The people that don’t bring me joy or peace? Edited out of the poem that is my life.

I call on you to live the will to love. This is more ... American person to make a living by writing poetry, turning his dreams into a reality. As he writes here, life without dreams is incomplete ...

“A big part of writing [my poetry book] Remember Love was this focus on what ... be depressed during a very magical time of life, which I think makes us incredibly fragile.

what makes things things as opposed to being something else. “All the new thinking is about loss”, the poem begins, in a mode of resignation more suited to the elegy than the love poem ...

This poem by ... I will not make war, I write and erase on the skull of time, and sing a new song," emphasizing the indomitable will to create a fresh, hopeful narrative despite life's struggles.

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 ...