This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Kate Coombs, who lives in Bountiful, Utah. Kate began writing when she was seven or eight years old and was first published in 2006. She confides that ...

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary—fearlessly ...

To me, the flow and rhythm are what make poetry so captivating, and subsequently, I think that rhyming lines can only help that effort. These four poems and excerpts below demonstrate exactly what I'm ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Well, now I suppose is as good as any time to talk to you about poetry and rhyme. Does a poem have to ...

The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop. Now it’s your turn For most of us, our first exposure to the joys of verse was when we ...