The reading — which one audience member said was the best attended poetry reading ever held in Middlebury (a crowd of 40!) – featured farmer-poets, or poet-farmers.

Poem Poem: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer Wendell Berry makes a case for going at it your own way: “I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my/inheritance and destiny, so be it.” ...

Poet-for-hire Zach Houston works at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco. Houston says he is paid about $2 to $20 for each poem.

Kourtney Jones, a poet and elementary school teacher, offers on-the-spot poem-writing with her station -- The Poem Market. Customers give her a subject to write about, she asks them a few ...

In her latest poetry collection, Honest Sonnets: Memories from an Unorthodox Childhood in Verse, Nicole Farmer explores her youth spent traversing the United States and the globe.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

Here is a poem, not exactly an ode to cherries, more like an ode to missed chances. I like the way the cherries stand for all the sensuality built into the scene — his thick but careful hands ...

Bob Holman calls Serhiy Zhadan’s poetry a “Canterbury Tales” of Ukrainian common people. He lists all the people, the soldiers, farmers, drug dealers and poor whose stories Zhadan tells. The ...

MARY SCHWALM/Staff photo Wetherbee School student Danyelie Rosario, center, reads part of a poem as Mark Schorr, executive director of the Frost Foundation, and classmate Diomedes Anziani, right ...

Poems of female farmer Yu Xiuhua, now tagged as China's Emily Dickinson in media reports, reflect not only her dark past but her longing for the future.