There’s been an influx of books in recent years on how to, or how not to, read poetry. Why do you think that is? Books on what poetry’s about aren’t new. They’ve been around since the early 19th ...

BETTENDORF -- Public-speaking jitters hit 16-year-old Tiffany Trujillo like a ton of bricks. But with some coaching and care, the Pleasant Valley High School sophomore read her poem, ``My New Best ...

"The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets" by Ted Kooser, University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 What would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? This ...

What Ted Kooser, 2004-2006 Poet Laureate of the United States, speaks and reads from his work for the library’s 16th Annual Western Book Day When 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5; discussion groups, 1 to 2:30 ...

For as many years as Jerry Ball has been writing haiku, the world as he views it, he said, never stays the same. There’s beauty in every changing moment. Even as summerlike warm weather ushers in the ...