Poet Kwame Alexander has created a poem from submissions about the challenges of the past year and our dreams for the future. It ends with: "For... 'I Wake With Wonder': A Crowdsourced Poem Of ...

With #Poetry amassing more than 93m Instagram posts alone, is the spoken word resonating more than ever?

The poet Rumi wrote, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love. We're thinking about it at Morning ...

After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

Charlotte Smith was born in 1749 in London. She published both novels and poetry collections, including "Elegiac Sonnets" (J. Dodley, H. Gardner, and J. Bew, 1786), "Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle ...

Another friend taken too early by that cruel, smarmy bastard – cancer. Another person whose throaty laugh and shining glint in the eyes are gone. As we age, we encounter death more often, too often.

There is a poem in the midst of St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints that moves me to tears whenever I read it. Sometimes I save it for the end of a day that has been a grind, ...

On Wednesday, Amanda Gorman debuted a new poem centered around embracing our transition into the new year. In January 2021, the world fell in love with the 23-year-old poet as she performed her ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...