What is more exciting than finding a poem for every period you’re going through? Wouldn’t it create a sense of connection with a particular person in this world (the poet, in this case) who seems to ...

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 ...

The reviews for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s poetry are in: the health secretary’s attempt at a sensual sonnet reads more like an ...

Seamus Heaney made me love poetry. There you have it, the schmaltz, right up top. But it is true, so I have to say it and today is as good a day as any to do so, because Seamus Heaney died while we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Alessandrelli in his midtown Omaha home. Alessandrelli’s Fonograf Editions spoken-word-poetry records are pressed at the plant in Portland, where he recently lived. Vinyl records fresh off the ...

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 ...

A sad tale's best for winter, Shakespeare tells us. I'm wondering if perhaps poetry, both lyrical and narrative, isn't best for summer. I'm thinking of how Keats, in "Ode to a Nightingale," describes ...