For National Poetry Month, NPR's Life Kit team offers some tips to help you better appreciate the art form — and encourages listeners to write their own haikus. It's National Poetry Month. And if that ...

*Amanda Gorman is the latest celebrity to join the MasterClass, teaching members how to write and perform poetry. Per press release, MasterClass members will have unprecedented access to Gorman’s ...

'Stories with a Heartbeat' is a new podcast from WUNC using a poetic lens to explore conflict. As athletes from around the world compete for gold in Rio this summer, poets from across the U.S. are ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with children's book author and poet Andrea Davis Pinkney about her picks from the #NPRPoetry submissions. Now for some poetry. As we celebrate NPR Poetry Month, we've ...

Jerome Rothenberg says that since he was a child, some form of poetry “was always in the air,” and he could create his own songs and rhymes in response to what he was hearing. As an adult, he’s spent ...

Marina Diamandis, the indie-pop singer-songwriter previously known as Marina and the Diamonds, has never been afraid to pursue alternative ventures. She’s dabbled in floral design, studied psychology, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Orr RHYME’S ROOMS The Architecture of Poetry By Brad Leithauser If you write about poetry, ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Charles Ghigna — Father Goose — who lives in Homewood, Alabama. Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes ...

Music and poetry share a capacity to make their audience feel things. How do they do it? Do the same cognitive mechanisms play a role in both art forms? Omigie (2015) hypothesizes that empathy with an ...