In the welcome re-issue of “Old Poets: Reminiscences & Opinions” (Godine), the late poet Donald Hall who died at his farm in New Hampshire in 2018 at age 89, recounts an astonishing array of ...

Funny poems are tough to pull off. I’m not talking here about poems with humor in them; almost every good poem has at least one funny thing smuggled inside it. No, I mean poems with punch lines, poems ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Alan Katz, who lives in Milford, Connecticut. Alan says, “I’ve been writing since Miss Gordon showed me the alphabet in kindergarten. But I’ve been a ...

All poetry tells a story, but not all storytelling is necessarily poetic. When it comes to two new collections of poetry from local authors Adam Deutsch and Manuel Paul López, they each have divergent ...

RUSSELL SIMMONS DEF POETRY JAM: Performance poetry. Directed by Stan Lathan. The lights went up and he was caught in the spotlight, testing out a little moonwalking as if he were in the privacy of his ...

When we were both young and unknown poets, Patricia Lockwood had a blog with the tagline “Poems Are Jokes.” For years, this phrase has come back to me, when I hear an especially poetic joke or read an ...

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh honored former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, highlighting his legacy defined by deeds and personality rather than position. Singh praised Vajpayee's remarkable poetry, humor, ...

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