Heather Frankland The Bayard Public Library and Silver City Public Library will host a Winter Poetry Challenge in partnership ...

As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

Morning Edition resident poet Kwame Alexander wants to read your poems that respond to art. He's selected two paintings from which to draw... Poetry Challenge: Paint A Picture With Words For those who ...

Earlier in April, we invited people to write and share their own original poems. It’s something we do annually for National Poetry Month, but we also wanted to acknowledge that we’re all in a very ...

That noted philosopher, Robin Williams, once suggested that college can destroy almost anyone’s love of poetry. “Hours of boring analysis, dissection and criticism will see to that,” he said, and ...

What: National Poetry Month brings Pattiann Rogers to Loveland: The Poetry of Earth is Ceasing Never/Wild Has Its Skills. When: April 5-6. Where: Loveland Public Library, Gertrude Scott Room, 300 N.

PORTSMOUTH — The sounds of soft guitar strums ring out as guests walk up to the white tent on the Portsmouth Public Library lawn, the lyrics of the song adding a weight to the already heavy and humid ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...