Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books, including A Heap o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1917).

Edgar A. Guest earned the nickname "Poet of the People" from his daily poetry column, "Just Folks," which ran in some 300 newspapers across the country from the 1910s to 1959.

Slate Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky will be joining in discussion of Edgar Guest's "Home" and Marianne Moore's "Silence" this week. Post your questions and comments on the work, and he'll respond ...

Princeton students once voted him the world's worst poet, and a jeering couplet hounded him for years: "I'd rather flunk my Wassermann test/Than read a poem by Edgar Guest."* Such ...

The poem by Edgar Guest, “Sermons We See,” explores how people live their lives and how everyday actions serve as sermons of our true nature and beliefs. The poem is a lesson in the power of ...

In previous years, Slatehas paid ambivalent heed to National Poetry Month by publishing poems against poetry, ... simple, and folksy, like the now-unreadable work of Edgar Guest (1888-1959)?

Michigan's first — and only until Comer's appointment — poet laureate was Edgar Guest, a former syndicated poet for the Free Press who held the title from 1952 until his death in 1959.

If Edgar Guest , a renowned poet, were alive today, he would tell the congressional supercommittee how to reach a consensus and resolve our country’s fiscal crisis. Maybe he already has, since ...

If Edgar Guest, a renowned poet in the first half of the 20th century, were alive today, he would tell the congressional supercommittee how to reach a consensus and resolve ...