The poem, Daybreak in Alabama, has always been one of my favorites. I don't know if Langston Hughes ever visited Alabama, or just used the stereotype of the state in the 1930s to make his point, but ...

Every morning I feed a piece of blank paper into my Wedgefield 200 manual typewriter. I type the date, I confidently slide the carriage to the right and I begin typing whatever is there to be typed.

According to the website where I found this totally legitimate holy day of obligation, National Morning Show Host Day is "dedicated to watching and appreciating your morning talk show hosts before you ...

My days start with coffee and some time at the typewriter. Yes, typewriter. I fill a page each day with whatever comes out when I start typing. I put them in a pile and, on special days, I dust them ...

Conceived as a kind of literary field trip to Carl Sandburg's North Carolina farm, From Daybreak to Good Night: Poems for Children, edited by Lynn Smith-Ary, places 11 of the poet's works in a ...

Poems from the Morning StarEdited by Alistair Findlay, Morning Star, £12.50POETRY is in the news a lot these days. We have ...

If the Transcendentalists produced no great poets, they did produce an oddity in Jones Very (1813–1880). To write about him is almost inevitably, and not without reason, to couple his already striking ...

Some of the Morning Live family read a poem written by viewer Terry, on being an unpaid carer. The poem is based on his experience of caring for his father for eight years.