A NYC public school teacher gave up her day job to pursue her dream by writing and selling poems on the streets of the Big ...

Let us call to mind and heart the insights or events that have moved us to express our faith in action, how our work ...

The word love is elusive, a noun without context. However, its verb form, "loving," is more than the thing. It invokes poetry ...

That Mary Oliver poem has the lines, “If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile/Under the perfectly round eyes and above the chin/Which was rough/As a thousand sharpened nails.” That ...

From the moment Hadia Haikal-Mukhtar first moved to Australia from Lebanon as a teen, she was underestimated - both as a ...

When love walks away with someone else, it hurts, but it can also be the start of your rebirth. These 4 heartbreak poems will ...

When love leaves, it doesn't always leave ruins; sometimes it leaves lessons, scars that heal, and memories that teach us to ...

When Ada Limon became the U.S. poet laureate back in 2022, she took that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect or to ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism.

Here Hardy delivers yet another of what might be termed his “Funny Accent” performances, where he adopts some weird-ass voice ...

Poetry is a space to experiment with language — communications through this medium enables deeper emotional expression. This ...