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.

An epistolary poem is a poem in the form a letter — from the Latin, epistula, for letter. It can tell a story, pose a question, voice a desire – or a cry for help. We're asking you to write a ...

DEAR JOANNE: I agree the poem is a treasure. It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 at the age of 87. His words are as relevant today as they ...

Unnamed Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Story of a Poem" (Unnamed Press), the celebrated writer Michael Zapruder (author of ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it.

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

The man got really quiet and said he’d need to read the poem again, but that he had a good feeling about it. Eventually, he came back with “a tear in his eye” to thank Bernthal. It was perhaps ...

A poem may outlast its author, but an in-person poetry reading—like the one for which Strand resurrects Stevens—is an inherently fleeting event.