As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Many of the most memorable poems ever written came from daily life. When we write about ourselves, we are on familiar ground. A poem is the most concise way of expressing what we want to say. It can ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...

Our poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is a big fan of the power nap. Research shows how restorative naps can be. Has it been that way for you? Tell us in the form of a poem. For inspiration, Alexander ...

That noted philosopher, Robin Williams, once suggested that college can destroy almost anyone’s love of poetry. “Hours of boring analysis, dissection and criticism will see to that,” he said, and ...

We’ve been inviting people to write and share their own poems in honor of National Poetry Month. And we’re learning that, for some of you, isolation is stirring long-dormant creative impulses. Here ...

More than 70 people contributed to The Chronicle‘s National Poetry Month Contest, which asked for poems inspired by John Keats’s “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.” Many of the entries were, like ...

There could have been a me who never loved poetry. It shocks me to think that. My life has been, in part, a long lap-swim through poetry. I would have read a great deal anyhow, no doubt. But without ...

PORTSMOUTH — The sounds of soft guitar strums ring out as guests walk up to the white tent on the Portsmouth Public Library lawn, the lyrics of the song adding a weight to the already heavy and humid ...

Over the years, NPR's poetry community has turned both painful and joyful experiences into magnificent work. "Let's be clear: Anti-Asian violence and discrimination are not new. But, this racism seems ...