Eleonore “Ellie” Radtke, Fargo, talked to the Lord poetically a while ago. Then she shared her prayer poem with Neighbors. She titled it “I love to live.” Today, dear Lord, I’m 80, and there’s much I ...

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 ...

I've been thinking lately about what is only able to be said through poetry. How a poem can transform a moment into a feeling and make a memory come to life. Poetry has an incantatory effect; I read a ...