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 ...

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 ...

When sounds match up at the end of a line It’s called ‘end rhyme’ and sounds mighty fine So who wins the battle? And the prize of a rattle? Let’s call it a draw? Okay, that’s fine. When words have ...

There are lots of different types of poetry, but they often contain similar ingredients. The main ingredient in a poem is words. Poems can be about anything: they can tell a story or they can be a ...