April is National Poetry Month. And if poetry isn't your thing, don't worry. A lot of people are with you on that. But if you want to give poetry a shot and it just seems too dense or hard to ...

For National Poetry Month, NPR's Life Kit team offers some tips to help you better appreciate the art form — and encourages listeners to write their own haikus. It's National Poetry Month. And if that ...

April is National Poetry Month. In the midst of a pandemic, this year’s celebrations have either been suspended, or the organizers have become more creative in their planning. Where most towns across ...

THERE is something about the art of poetry which induces a defensive posture. Even in the old days when the primacy of poetry was no more challenged than the primacy of Heaven, which is now also ...

The US poet laureate on nature, the art of America, and her new anthology. Ada Limón is currently serving a second term as the United States’ 24th poet laureate. She is the author of six poetry ...

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As social distancing cut me off from my normal routine of basketball and tennis, I have started running instead. My route takes me to a park through which a shallow creek bends back and forth.

Marina Diamandis, the indie-pop singer-songwriter previously known as Marina and the Diamonds, has never been afraid to pursue alternative ventures. She’s dabbled in floral design, studied psychology, ...

In 250 years of Black poetry, the act of writing is itself a form of protest. It isn’t just representing the history of struggle, “it’s also enacting it and resisting it,” said poet Kevin Young. By ...