This story was originally published on March 30, 2020, and has been updated. A great poem can be there for you — just like other works of art you hold dear. It can help you process sadness ...

And I felt that this poem really captured that for some of our listeners, like Teresa, and I wanted to talk about that — that love in the later years." "The Company She Keeps" by Colleen J. McElroy.

When I first heard a poet would read at Obama’s inauguration, I was driving through Oakland, Calif., kid in the back seat, on my way to a cafe with Wi-Fi and a jungle gym. I had a poem to e-mail ...

Anyway, after reading the poem, I was inspired to try my hand at rewriting some poetry this week myself and sharing it with you. I decided to model my poem after Walt Whitman’s “Pioneers! O ...

John Keene’s poem “Pulse” is a poignant tribute to victims of the 2016 shooting at the nightclub in Orlando. After a gunman attacked another LGBTQ nightclub last weekend, Keene’s poem took ...

That’s when the Miami Poetry Collective stages “Poem Depot,” a sidewalk pop-up. Passersby buy poems for a nominal fee, which are then composed impromptu on manual typewriters.

Jobs for the Weekend. By Oki Sogumi. Nymph, the curly garlic clove Boating in the bean pot The drumming of plums and striped Beetle’s disease or jumping worm Pepper plants can branch horizontal ...