My guest today on Poetry from Daily Life is Ken Slesarik, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Ken became a writer 17 years ago and after the loss of his son began to focus on grief and loss poetry. Two ...

As March is National Reading Month, now is a good time to focus on the everyday reading we already do, while thinking of fun ways to add more into our routines. Whether it’s a child reading an ...

My Jan. 7 column about my own reading of 2025 included the sobering statistic that pleasure reading — news included — is down by 40% since 2003. And that a 2022 survey showed only 38% of Americans had ...