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 ...

Last Wednesday, writer John Keene put on a tuxedo and won a National Book Award for a new poetry collection that includes his poem “Pulse,” a tribute to the people killed and wounded in 2016 ...

This epistolary poem is directed to a friend of the speaker’s, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who died in 2021. The epistolary form is both intimate and expansive: It triangulates among the ...

Williams’s latest book, “Mutiny.” These poems — with titles like “Final First Poem,” “Final Poem for the Crow” and “Final Poem for the ‘Black Body’” — are beautiful in ...

Ever heard the saying “the best writers are readers”? The first step to writing a poem is figuring out what you like about poetry. Check out: USA TODAY's weekly Best-selling Booklist Is it ...

How she is bringing people to the (grammar) table One of those people was Michelle Chapman, who approached Kavanaugh and asked for a poem for her son Tristan, who's about to turn 17. A repeat ...

It will be equipped with massive solar panels, several cameras, an instrument that can sniff out chemicals in the moon’s atmosphere—and a 21-line poem entitled “In Praise of Mystery ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’.