My guest this week on Poetry from ... first 10 years of his life there. Randle says, “I don't apologize for being 100% Hillbilly.” At age 10 he was already writing songs.

They evoke images and memories we have stored in our minds and hearts. As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics ...

“Mail your song-poem on love, peace, victory or any other subject to us today,” announces an emblematic example from a 1922 issue of Illustrated World. “We revise song-poems, compose music ...

Libraries, schools and cultural organizations around Massachusetts and the country celebrate April as National Poetry Month. In honor of that occasion, please enjoy the official state ...