My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...

I have feelings about Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook company mishandling my data, and I used those feelings to write the following poem: "We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can ...

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“Poetry is life distilled,” said longtime Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. This is concise; but what does it mean? It means, as I understand it, that poetry is a place where the rich ...