Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

When you fall in love, you sort of losing all rationality. So, you have to really think when it comes to writing poetry. Whether you're in a relationship or you're hoping to be in one with someone in ...

You can do better than that — and you should. Nothing makes the bauble or sweets you give your valentine more memorable than an attached poem. For inspiration look to no less a poet than Nebraskan Ted ...

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.

April is Poetry Month, a painful reminder for some, who suffered under English teachers who made them write about the cherry tree wearing white for Eastertide or “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruneface” ...

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 to a ...

If Shakespeare were still alive, it’d be impossible to crack his passwords. It’s time for pull out your inner Byron, folks, because as it turns out, the perfect password is a poem. According to new ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.