Now for something completely different. This week I’m guest-blogging at The Best American Poetry. So much fun! I’ll be putting up here what I wrote over there the day before. By signing up, you ...

Is there something wrong with writing poems about writing poems? And if so, what? My friend Richard Howard was the first person who told me he didn’t approve of that subject, but since he said it ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/to-write-machine-desk-flowers-1700787/ We are halfway through April, National Poetry Month, so it’s a great time to release any ...

April is National Poetry Month—perhaps a good time to review the positive aspects of reading and writing poems. Poetry is a genre of writing in which succinct, vivid, and intense language is given to ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

T.S. Eliot famously observed in his great poem, “The Four Quartets,” that April is the cruelest month. Economists quote this line every year during the first two weeks of that month when referencing ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Bob Stephens, who lives in Springfield, Missouri. This is Bob’s second column in the series. His first appeared on Jan. 14, 2024. He is a man of many ...

My guest this weekend on Poetry from Daily Life is William Trowbridge, who lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Bill says he came late into writing poetry. He was studying for his PhD comps when he came ...

I'm joined now by MORNING EDITION's poet in residence, Kwame Alexander. Hey, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. Rachel Martin, I got a question for you. MARTIN: OK. ALEXANDER: What did the ...

At 68, DuBois still provides consulting work for public defenders, as well as practicing psychotherapy. His work and life ...

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.