This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

For first-time film composer Mark Bradshaw, the job of scoring Jane Campion’s ethereal period pic “Bright Star” began with words rather than notes on a page. “I always wanted the music to come from ...

Often, people look for ways to avoid distractions, especially during important work. And, really, what could be more important than your writing? The process of transforming your wildest ideas, your ...

Louis Jenkins, a longtime Duluth poet who drew inspiration from the northern landscape, died Saturday, the morning of the winter solstice. Called "one of the masters" of the prose-poem form by ...

The public television special series entitled Poetry in America, airing the first week in April on PBS stations nationwide, opens up a whole new vista to experiential travelers through the creative ...

Life can be an unforgiving and exhausting journey — from natural disasters happening halfway around the world to something closer to home like the loss of a beloved pet. While these tragedies are ugly ...

MY FATHER LOVED poetry — or, should I say, he loved certain down-to-earth poems he could, and did, recite when moved by circumstance. It was his delivery of them — gently impassioned and freighted ...