One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/poetry-poetry-album-old-font-poem-720609/ For years, psychotherapists have suggested poetry as a way to navigate difficult times. This ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

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.

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 ...