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.
NPR's Rachel Martin and poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander want to read your poems about sports. You can use sport as a metaphor for our lives — or simply write about the game or team you love.
Lawyer-poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for years hid the fact that he had served time in prison. Now, this time in his life is at the center of his new collection of poems.
April is the most poetic month, and we're celebrating by asking poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny Choi to talk about what inspires them to write, and how poetry helps express identity.
Her story was so inspirational to readers that they literally sprung into verse, with a Dr. Seuss-inspired poem. What they created is the most joyful poem about eye worms ever written.
Years of treating grievously injured people starts to wear on a person, a trauma nurse in Minneapolis says. She explores "compassion fatigue" in a semi-autobiographical poem.
Syd Stewart is a poet, actor, and the founder of Better Youth, a Los Angeles-based organization that uses the arts to inspire young people. She lives in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Your green Arcadian hills do not interest me.The bird-bright eyes of every bird cared for,the way it is promised, the way it is written,everyone fat on...
Many of us happily said goodbye poetry in high school.Why spend so much energy struggling with an image? Why worry about meter and rhyme when the same...
Amanda Titolo spent three months preparing to recite a poem that lasted 30 seconds. But the hard work paid off: the high school student won the Nevada State Poetry Out Loud Competition.
