We may earn a commission from links on this page. All hail National Poetry Month, in which we are allowed — encouraged, even — to revel in words laid one by one without the usual constraints of ...

Over the years, NPR's poetry community has turned both painful and joyful experiences into magnificent work. As the world still endures the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. also grieves over increased ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely do ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Rejoice, poetry lovers, because April is here which means it's officially National Poetry Month, and entire 30 days dedicated to stunning stanzas, visceral verses, and prophetic poets. As part of your ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

Tuesday in Bismarck: High school students from across the state will compete in the North Dakota finals for "Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest" on Tuesday at the North Dakota Heritage ...

(upbeat music) - Shall I tell you then that we exist. There came a light blue and white careening, the police like wailing angels to bitter me. Competitive speech is a thing that I do. There's ...