April is National Poetry Month, so I’ve selected two poetry books that publishers have sent me recently that stood out to talk about this week. In each case, the primary audience is younger people, ...

Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most important poets in French literature (he also made a name for himself as a literary and art ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Marilyn Singer, who divides her time between Brooklyn, New York and Washington, Connecticut. This is Marilyn’s second column in the series. Her first ...

“The importance of not being in earnest is precisely what makes the play of the cat video important.” [3] “It is not the cat video’s place to ask you to learn. … Any cat who wants your particular ...

him, twitching still, onto my Welcome Mat, flicking him in the ditch across the road. All day, as if in pain, my old cat yowled, glaring at me with flat, accusing eyes. “Our bond,” he seemed to say, ...

I chose this line from Carl Sandburg’s poem as the title for a University of Arizona OLLI course I teach because it shows how a poem can come softly padding into your life and take you by surprise, ...

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was a master of words. Bust out some Neruda poetry with a girl and you are guaranteed to score major points every time. The Internet has chosen to take the words of the Nobel ...

It has been said that living with a cat is a lot like living in a perpetual poem. I can attest to this, in fact, there are times I find myself entirely absorbed simply watching either of our two cats ...