Now for something completely different. This week I’m guest-blogging at The Best American Poetry. So much fun! I’ll be putting up here what I wrote over there the day before. By signing up, you ...

The third book in a series (begun with Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems, also illustrated by Barbour), this picture book collection is a linguistic pleasure. Works by Emily Dickinson, Eve Merriam and ...

Community member Kathy Moore lives a simple life in her retirement after impacting thousands of lives over a lengthy career ...

My maternal grandfather was an artist who was a sign-writer. When they become public, acts of collaboration in poetry are more private than it might seem. As with all collaborations across the arts, ...

The sun is out. Flowers are blooming. Spring is here — finally. Each year, spring is coupled with a celebration of beauty, expression and the rhythmic qualities of language: We are talking about ...

The hardest part about writing poetry is choosing the right words. Use a paper or magazine as raw material to get over the first hurdle. By Leah Umansky These days, people are turning to art or poetry ...

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.