When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to the ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

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Over 126 million Americans are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. After a long year, it feels like we can all take a breath. Throughout the pandemic, we've learned a lot. No one is coming out of ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’. It’s a great way to really show you understand the poem and have some fun sharing it with ...

When you look at me what is it that you see? Is it the thoughts of my past, the future you would prefer to have, or could it possibly be the present I am honoring. My skin, my face, and my demeanor is ...

I’ve written about chants and mantras before, but I’ve left out an equally prevalent interior monologue that occupies my runs: poems. Whether it’s the message board outside a church or school, a ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

Poetry isn't always the most straightforward style of writing. Anyone who ever studied poetry in a high school English class can probably remember at least one moment of staring blankly at the page ...