CHICAGO (WLS) -- At a halfway house on Chicago's West Side, there's been a sudden burst of creativity that has to do with putting rhyme and rhythm into troubled lives. For over 60 years, St. Leonard's ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Timothy Rasinski, who lives in Stow, Ohio. Tim was told he was a good writer during his master’s degree program. However, his writing is not poetry, but ...

When you grow up reading voraciously, you often develop a tendency to write. While most people write prose and that too fiction, some however opt for a different genre to express themselves, ...

It’s time to rhyme. Take a look and find the kind that sounds sublime. Limericks are funny, five-lined poems. They follow an AABBA rhyming pattern, meaning that the first, second and fifth lines rhyme ...

I think I've always been a poet. Even when I thought as a teenager that I would grow up to be a best-selling novelist, I sought out layers to peel off my phrasing; I sought out words that travel ...

What's on view in a terrifically lively show at the Getty Research Institute has gone by various names — concrete poetry is the most common, but also visual poetry, spatial poetry and imaged words, ...

It came as a surprise to me that Asir Ajmal is a poet and a short story writer. On top of it, he writes in three languages: English, Urdu and Punjabi. Thus far, I had known Ajmal only as a ...

When I was in my early 20s, living in Berkeley and drifting toward a PhD in Russian literature, I started writing poetry. It was a completely unexpected development. I definitely hadn’t been one of ...