When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to ...

Poetry may be important for millennials, but let's be honest, we probably still spend more time discussing ... them reads the poems differently. This is a perfect one to leave you with.

mortality and the passage of time. There is no fruit more poetic than the homely apple: Horticulturally, an apple is a kind of pome. Switch the last two letters and you have a poem, which may be ...

At one time ... word” poem, always read it out loud. (Never mind what they said in grammar school—to subvocalize so that you won’t bother your peers.) Your ear will pick up more than your ...