Poet and educator Kwame Alexander stops by to chat about poetry with NPR's Rachel Martin. He shares some ideas for poems to read with kids and tips for getting kids to write some of their own. Oh, the ...

To be or not to be? Young poets might know the question from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” from movies or television, but not from reading the Bard himself. And it might not matter. Kids are creating ...

As much as Ariane Tapp loves the process of putting words together to create something beautiful, the Quebec-based poet notes that the art form can also serve a higher, more meaningful purpose.

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I was 16 when the Library of Congress called me. Standing outside in the Arizona desert, I learned that out of 200,000 applications in 2018, the federally funded National Student Poets Program had ...

Nick Hall, the 12-year-old protagonist in Kwame Alexander’s latest novel-in-verse, “Booked,” is a soccer star who dreams of playing in the European Cup. Unfortunately, his days are filled with the ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Kwame Alexander talks, you can sense something irrepressible just under the ...