Those who want to write something but are struggling with how to get started often ask, “How do I find ideas?” My response is to redirect the focus. Ideas are everywhere. The trick isn’t in finding ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Lauren Camp, who lives in Sante Fe and is the New Mexico Poet Laureate.

Just writing what happens, and knowing a lot of it won’t work and that what works will work not because of technique, mainly, ...

This week's column is written by David L. Harrison, the host of Poetry from Daily Life. David, who lives in Springfield, made up his first poem more than eighty years ago and is currently Poet ...

How do you start a poem? What if there is no right way? I like to locate in a particular place, which for me, is often the high desert where I live. From there, I’m often writing toward something I ...