This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Ted Kooser, who lives on an acreage near Garland, Nebraska. What would become his writing career began when Ted was in his teens. Today he is known for ...

In American Life in Poetry, featured every Tuesday on the back page of the Lancaster New Era, Ted Kooser selects a poem written by a contemporary poet that offers insights - both big and small - into ...

It’s a subject ripe for sentimentality — a middle-age man considers the idyllic movements of his childhood, in a small town in the Midwest at midcentury. Yet “Lights on a Ground of Darkness,” former U ...

What began as a single educator’s vision has exploded into one of the most impactful educational platforms globally, TED-Ed. It’s the educational arm of TED, the organization behind the iconic TED ...

I'm not alone in noticing how time accelerates as we grow older, and as the seasons grow ever more brief, the holidays are gone in a wink. This poem by Nancy Price about Halloween catches a little of ...

I’d been writing poems for quite a few years before I understood what my job was to be. I’d published a little poem called “Spring Plowing” in which I imagined a community of field mice moving their ...