In fact, I wrote a stupid poem about it in first grade and it found its way to the internet in 1998 or soon after. Mary Oliver I am not. To help me get through my Zooms prepping for the next day ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

DEAR ABBY: While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the ...

“My poems and I don’t require the patronage of the syllabus committee to survive. I am not a poet of the masses but of a few like-minded readers. My poems are exclusively meant for them ...

Children don’t even read anymore. Omowunmi is trying to take over to see what can be done about it. People don’t seem to know ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

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