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 ...

A few interpretations of the rhyme are light-hearted, but many are far darker — like the theory that it’s a metaphor for the ...

The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn For most of us, our first exposure to the joys of verse was when we ...

When sounds match up at the end of a line It’s called ‘end rhyme’ and sounds mighty fine So who wins the battle? And the prize of a rattle? Let’s call it a draw? Okay, that’s fine. When words have ...

This week we've been remembering Muhammad Ali – the boxer, Muslim convert, political activist, friend. Today, we remember Muhammad Ali the poet. There were the quick couplets he used to taunt his ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...