After reading through the exuberant poems in Barbara Crooker’s ninth book, I began to look at the world with different eyes. I found small, seemingly ordinary things to praise and felt myself ...

The poet Rumi wrote, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love. We're thinking about it at Morning ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews, Storey Publishing, 208 pages. $14.95. Credit: Courtesy This January, Amanda Gorman’s reading at the presidential inauguration ...

With his new book of poetry about race in America, Morning Edition poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander hopes to "shine a little light for the world." In the book, Light For The World To See: A Thousand ...

It was a rough evening outside but a warm feeling within. Lynn and I were with fellows and gals passing out food outside a closed church in Norfolk’s Park Place. The rain came down but the smiles ...

We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over ...

Blackout poetry might be an unfamiliar writing form to you, but Instagram Poet, John Carroll is making this style of poetry more accessible to readers online. With the release of Carroll's new ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

Sixteen poets tell us about the verses and books they are reading, or that they hope others seek out. By Andrew LaVallee Even as much of the world is still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, ...