“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken to everything in the universe.” – John Muir I bought a new flashlight for ...

Phil Klay is always named among the best of contemporary American writers — especially about war and soldiers. After serving in the Marine Corps in Iraq, he would win the National Book Award for ...

"The finest Christian poet alive today is the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas. Our century has produced some magnificent Christian poetry, but R. S. Thomas has written the most convincing.” So commented poet ...

Looking for poetry that can be presented as evidence, as news, and as passage of time was a process that shattered the idea that poems are the opposite of journalism. In a time when television ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende, who lives in Haines, Alaska. Alaska has a Writer Laureate rather than a Poet Laureate and Heather, who has just finished a term in that ...