My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and favors ...

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 ...

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Kathleen Rooney taped a small sign to the long table at the center of the Grainger Ballroom, at the top of the opulent swoop of stairs on the second floor of Symphony Center. She took her seat beneath ...