Just about every day now has a special observance associated with it. Among other things, April 30th is National Honesty Day, ...
The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from ...
Regardless of how you found your favorite poem or poet, there’s a spiritual reason behind the poetry that has left a mark on ...
Step 2: Commit to reading one poem a day. Read out loud whenever possible and read each poem more than once. Jot down the ...
Learn more about Caedmon’s Hymn, the first poem written in English, and a new copy recently found in Rome thanks to archival ...
To put that theory into practice, I teamed up with my friend Jared Bauman, built an AI-powered poem generator, and released ...
To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do ...
“It’s one of the moments of Western consciousness,” says Frederick Seidel, 90, the author of more than a dozen collections of ...
An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...
Most performers at the Uptown Poetry Slam get one poem; Del Valle, who made a surprise appearance for National Poetry Month, ...
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 ...