If you ever find yourself in need of a poem, I've got great news for you: Dial-A-Poem is back! These days, the arts of all ...

“If we cannot find the words, may we find the will,” Amanda Gorman wrote in a new poem honoring Alex ...

Spurning the iconoclastic free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited ...

It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other.

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Love, Life and Mother Nature: Picture Book of Poems” (ISBN: 978-1834182124 released September, 2025 by Tellwell Publishing) ...

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 ...

Today I’m here with the tiniest pep talk, in case you need one. This one’s as much about saying no as it is about saying yes. In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

The story never reveals the nasty rumor about P., and this is just one of several bits of withheld information in the story. Disclosure, or its lack, both shapes the story and is the subject of this ...

When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech 58 years ago, he changed the course of history with his aspiration. In the poem, there's hope in the chaos, and it attends to the ...