break or harden ... There’s a Valentine’s gift to live up to. Wendy Cope’s The Orange almost unexpectedly turn into a love poem, as the poet describes the increasing “peace and contentment ...

If this all sounds intriguing, pick up Tallahassee writer Jennifer Schomburg Kanke’s debut volume of poetry called ... she needed to know more. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ...

My guest on Poetry from Daily Life this week is Michael ... and deposit it like a Polaroid picture into another’s? Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. That’s the poet ...

He took a steamer, hooked up with a party of drunken duck hunters ... lightning struck, poetry broke upon him in a big way. What had happened, actually, was that he had crossed the Atlantic ...

“Break then your chains, in love unite, nor seek in foreign lands the sight of things not even found above,” the poem dictates ... as part of a Stand Up for Ukraine relief show ...

Five decades into a storied career, Robert Earl Keen was introduced by Americana superstar Tyler Childers for his Grand Ole Opry debut.

But words were only part of her mission; in keeping with the slam poetry tradition she came up in, monet sees her ... disappoint you / maybe even break your heart or hurt your feelings / this ...

It's the weekend at the start of March break and the weather is expected to warm up on Sunday, which makes it a good day to ...

Predictably, it’s not long before they break the rules ... strong in this trashy mash-up, though it’s best appreciated as an unlikely romance, where love and poetry somehow blossom amid ...

As they unleash their powerful third album Blindness – and gear up for their headline show at the Iveagh Gardens this summer – The Murder Capital sit down to ...