“Poetry is life distilled,” said longtime Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. This is concise; but what does it mean? It means, as I understand it, that poetry is a place where the rich ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

In this moving elegy to his infant daughter, Saddiq Dzukogi reminds us of how complex grief can be. The body’s responses to grief offer a way for us to cope with its deep pain. Here, the poem, “So ...

We're going to ask Mosab Abu Toha to read the beginning of his poem "Younger Than War." MOSAB ABU TOHA: (Reading) Tanks roll through dust, through eggplant fields. Beds unmade. Lightning in the sky.

We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...

When senior Lucy Chuang learned of the March 16 shootings in Atlanta, she opened her poetry journal. In the days that followed, she wrote several poems dedicated to the Asian women who were killed.

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...