An 8-year-old. A 22-year-old MFA student. An 80-year-old retiree. What they all have in common is that they’re emerging poets who’ve visited Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s office hours at ...

New York Times book reviewer and poetry columnist David Orr reviews this week's #NPRpoetry submissions and offers some tips for those looking to contribute. There once was a radio host who liked April ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Love poetry is as much of an old Valentine’s Day standby as chocolates ...

The San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) is looking for the next Amanda Gorman. Alamo City youth can now submit imaginative odes ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: Even if you're not a fan of poetry, there's a podcast out there about poetry that might capture your interest. It's called Interesting People ...

Ted Geisel used to tell kids he got his ideas from a certain store where he went from time to time to get a sack of them. He may have fudged about the store, but you really can fill a sack with ideas.

In honor of National Poetry Month, we've been asking our audience to tweet us their poems all through the month of April. To participate, send your original poem, in 140 characters or less, to @npratc ...