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A young person wrote a poem about pandemic despair. Here’s why it gave me hope. ... My mother, a high school English teacher, started going to graduate school for counseling psychology.
My early poems were composed using a lot of fictional devices: I approached time and transition differently than I do now; I often resolved poems in the way that fiction might resolve its project ...
Love poems can be hard to read. ... The second person “you” in the first line and throughout the poem invites the reader into a private relationship. ... She Ties My Bow Tie.
For National Poetry Month, Oregon's poet laureate is bringing "the electric illumination of our collective human experience" directly to the public with a daily poetry hotline.
For Cecelia, writing the poem was a way for her to embody “my present self meeting back up with my past self and be the person for her that she didn’t have at that time.” ...
Last month, she won the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a $100,000 prize which recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.
Today is your chance to express and show your love to your partner with one of these 10 poems. You can write it on a card and give it along with a rose, some chocolates, or a stuffed animal.
The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.