This week’s poem, by Janie Gendron, embodies the act of hope through notes written on paper, stones ascended, green pastures ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves. Back for ...

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 ...

Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and ...

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 ...

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.