Use rhythm, repetition, and rhyme, and rearrange the found words to create your own powerful poem. What if you could write a poem without using your own words? Jeff Kass shows you how to create a ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...

William Christie receives funding from the Australian Research Council for research into an entirely unrelated topic. If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of ...

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 the ...

Want to feel happier, lighter, less stuck? Try these fun daily activities. Monday Start Doodling Tuesday Write a Poem Wednesday Daydream Thursday Do 10% More Welcome to Day 2 of the Creativity ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

It may feel like a lifetime ago, but it was only last year that Amanda Gorman was catapulted to global fame after a poignant recital of her poem “The Hill We Climb” emerged as one of the undeniable ...