In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

I’m a nonfiction writer who has dabbled in fiction writing over the years. I hope to do more of both, but now I also feel called to write poetry. I enjoy the idea of packing big ideas into small ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a class exploring Swift’s music's connection to ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently Come, Thief, and the classic collection of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. Who better to ask: Why write ...

But, maybe it is time to drop a line of poetry rather than dropping bombs. Sometimes, the only way to sanctify our sanity is ...

During the entire month of April, downtown Latrobe will once again be bursting at the seams with poetry. As part of National ...