I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

A new collection of illustrated story poems is told from the perspective of a boy who lived in a shell. His name is Ivo, and he lived in an empty moon snail shell on a beach of sand until a wave ...

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OPUS 7—Sylvia Townsend Warner— Viking ($2). JONATHAN GENTRY—Mark Van Doren —Boni ($2.50). Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét’s John Brown’s Body was readable and even ...

PEOPLE who remember things written as long ago as five years have a certain stiffness in their tastes which disqualifies them for the enjoyment of much contemporaneous achievement; and it is fortunate ...

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 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 ...