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 ...

For many years he published a new poem every day—and he did not miss deadlines. And yet, as fame goes, few people today know the name of Edgar Guest (1881-1959).

But Guest’s popularity is history, while every day people still read the peculiar, demanding poems of Guest’s approximate contemporaries Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens.

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 ...

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.

Michigan's first (and so far, only) state poet laureate was Edgar Guest, a former syndicated poet for the Free Press. He held the title starting in 1952.

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 ...