When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

For Julie Clayton, winner of Missouri's 2024 Poetry Out Loud competition, rhythm and rhyme are the key to a poem.

Poems about life for nearly every situation Poetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ...

Ocean Vuong's second poetry collection, Time is a Mother, grapples with time and its impermanence following his mother's death in 2019.

Muslim women are powerful and can choose to wear a headscarf or not, says RadioActive’s Rahmah Abdulazeez. Rahmah wrote a poem about how she and her sister deal with discrimination as hijabis in ...

Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions and surprises, providing room for both ...

For this latest community poem, NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander sifted through more than 1,000 submissions reacting to the killing of Ahmaud Abrery and created a poem that speaks with one voice.

USA TODAY's Lokela Blanc presents ˈblak and (h)wīt', an original poem about the pain, struggle and empowerment she's found from within.

Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher Virginia Lowe.

Amanda Gorman reflects on her whirlwind 2021 as she releases New Year’s Poem in partnership with Instagram.