Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that ...

Your brain's reward center literally lights up like a Christmas tree when you see their face. But the chemistry doesn't stop ...

When the northern lights dramatically lit up skies across the country earlier this month, poet Silas House was among those of us dazzled from below.

You could be forgiven for not reading a poem since your school days, but poetry is not as you remember. Contemporary poetry is fun, exciting, and so refreshingly accessible. Now's your time to pick up ...

April is National Poetry Month! Who else besides me is excited and wants to try talking in haiku all month long? No one? Hmm, okay. One of my favorite definitions of the word “poetic” comes from Urban ...

Ask any writer or reader and they will tell you that poetry is the highest form and use of language. So much so that poetry is almost intimidating. It can, at times, feel too pure, too out of place ...

Literature can be daunting for some young people, so how can we create a culture of avid readers? Poetry can be a non-threatening alternative introduction for fledgling bibliophiles, giving them more ...

Taylor Swift’s lyrics are studied by college students across the country, including at Harvard University, for their literary value. Should they be woven into the high school and middle school English ...

As an act of revenge, it is Oscar-worthy. Olympic Gold standard. Stellar and sublime. Because what on earth could be more ...

Few films have impacted me like TRAIN DREAMS, and those very things make it so hard to describe. The movie is beautiful, lush, and profound. It moves through you in such a fascinating way. Its raw and ...