shares a poem that will help you remember all 101 two-letter words that you can use ... or when lumberjacks insensitively AX stately trees. AY one might say, to say "I agree." ...

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 ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...

Now, a pair of poet-educators are working to bring the rich art of spoken-word poetry to students from kindergarten to graduate school. “The powerful and important thing about spoken word is ...

It was only when I found Tupac’s book The Rose That Grew From Concrete behind an ex-boyfriend’s decks and discovered the words of Gil Scott-Heron that I fell in love with poetry. Specifically ...

Once, when Ben Bernthal was selling street poetry — he takes three words from a stranger, and turns them into a poem on the spot — a man came up and told him to write a poem about “why it matters.” ...

On that day when the soul dresses in white and the heart beats stronger, every word spoken takes on an eternal meaning. Short poems are like whispers from the soul, little gems of love that can ...