The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

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 ...

When you look at me what is it that you see? Is it the thoughts of my past, the future you would prefer to have, or could it possibly be the present I am honoring. My skin, my face, and my demeanor is ...

Take just a moment to estimate how many songs you know by heart. Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Now, how many poems do you have memorized? For most modern readers, even poetry fans, that number's pretty ...

I saw a poem you had written online, and I was wondering if you could place it in your column for everyone to read. I know it ...

Dear Readers: I cannot possibly reprint all the poems, essays and “favorite columns” that my gracious readers have sent on — my mailbox was jammed! Several of the most-often requested essays have ...

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruneface” ...

“A poem is never done,” the writer Sandra Cisneros told me in July, over dinner at La Posadita, a restaurant in San Miguel de Allende, the Mexican city where she’s lived for almost ten years. Wearing ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay counts herself as one of the many people inspired by W.J. Lofton’s powerful visual poem “We Ask For Fire”—in which he repeats the words, “the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor ...

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