I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s. By Victor Mather ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...