I was afraid to come out to my dad, but he was supportive. He said my happiness was all that mattered.

I considered dropping, but in an effort to Not Run Away from Hard Things, I stuck it out and discovered a new love. Poetry is not ... an accessible style, with poems that feature human ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer that you might find in a poetry book? Maybe something by Poe or Dickinson?

Then I fell in love with a woman. I wanted to weave her ... I read a poem onstage and had a vendor booth where I wrote custom, typewritten poems. My sister and father both came for my performance ...

A new collection of illustrated story poems is told from the perspective ... moon snail shell on the sea. He was scared at first, but he grew to love it so, as the stories he wrote will show.