Some poems are long and densely packed with meaning, but others are like snapshots written to save an image, idea or scene, ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time” establishes that necessary urgency in the first line and maintains it ...

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul ... The loss is part of what fuels the romance: We can’t smile because something happened without sighing because it’s over.

That sounds very complicated. Where do you start with that? How about subject? All poems need to be about something. Take Robert Burns. He wrote about all sorts. To A Mouse is about, well ...

And learning a poem by heart doesn’t have to be drudgery. It can be a way of holding onto something beautiful, a morsel of verbal pleasure you can take out whenever you want. A poem recited ...

When we’re writing poems, we’re pulling thoughts and images from the most intimate spaces in our mind and memory. Let’s imagine, when we’re writing, that we’re delivering them to the friends who know ...

I think they thought it had something quite scandalous in it or something, but it didn't. That's the title poem of the book but it embodied many of the things I wanted to say anyways," Wentworth said.

Hello Caroline. CAROLINE: Hello, hello. TESTAMENT: When you're writing about poetry it's important to say something about the poet's intention, why a poet has chosen to do something. Because we ...