Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced ...

Linda L. Franklin shares a heartfelt collection of accessible poems that explore love, friendship, and the enduring ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - On the final day of 2013, the Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor features a poem from poet Jack Ridl, former professor of English at Hope College. The poem, titled "The End of ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...

The collection starts on a note of hope, moves on to the afflictions of humanity, before concluding with a renewed belief in ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves. Back for ...

After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

The poet Rumi wrote, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love. We're thinking about it at Morning ...

Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and ...