As National Poetry Month comes to a close, we’re closing up our poetry inbox. All month, we’ve invited people to send us their own original poems, responding to a prompt each week. We’ve heard from ...

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: Through ...

That noted philosopher, Robin Williams, once suggested that college can destroy almost anyone’s love of poetry. “Hours of boring analysis, dissection and criticism will see to that,” he said, and ...

Earlier in April, we invited people to write and share their own original poems. It’s something we do annually for National Poetry Month, but we also wanted to acknowledge that we’re all in a very ...

Many of the most memorable poems ever written came from daily life. When we write about ourselves, we are on familiar ground. A poem is the most concise way of expressing what we want to say. It can ...

More than 70 people contributed to The Chronicle‘s National Poetry Month Contest, which asked for poems inspired by John Keats’s “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer.” Many of the entries were, like ...