We can find healing powers in writing a poem about our present conflicts or conundrums. This requires no special writing ...

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

SENTINEL BUTTE, N.D. (KFYR) - North Dakota’s wide-open spaces can inspire some big ideas. Just ask Sentinel Butte cowboy Bill ...

CHILLICOTHE— A lifelong poet and Chillicothe native recently won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her work "Ars Poeticas." Juliana Spahr currently teaches in higher education in California, but ...

A form called the Golden Shovel honors the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and you just need a newspaper to get started. By Leah Umansky Celebration and honor are two touchstones of the poetic tradition. With ...