Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs we all face ...

The love between friends deserves to be celebrated. These poems about friendship are sweet, relatable and heartfelt ways to say "I love you." ...

Reading poetry is sometimes presented like homework, but it can be as easy to understand as a trip to Disneyland, Matt Mason writes.

Author Greg Pincus explains how patterns — the rhythm of stepping over cracks in the sidewalk or making coffee — can guide your writing.

I have written over three thousand poems about life in our elementary schools, and I have learned that a short poem can have a huge impact on a child. Failure has always been a topic that ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love.

What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet? Life has become too short for “Middlemarch,” “A Dance to the Music of Time,” “The Alexandria Quartet” and lots of others I’m too ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee.