Will Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album “The Tortured Poets Department” usher in a new era of poetry appreciation? Delaney Atkins, a part-time instructor at Austin Peay State University who teaches a ...

Poems are powerful, magical and mysterious. They show us life in novel ways. “A poem is an offering,” says poet and professor Julie Marie Wade. It can sneak up on readers to show them something ...

If you enjoy poetry or simply love words, you can creatively channel that same energy for manifestation with an acrostic poem Getty Writing an acrostic poem with your name can help you set intentions ...

Considering February is the month of love, what better time could there be to write a love letter or poem to a beloved? To be loved and nurtured is a universal need. Being loved creates feelings of ...

For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

The sun is out. Flowers are blooming. Spring is here — finally. Each year, spring is coupled with a celebration of beauty, expression and the rhythmic qualities of language: We are talking about ...

Physics and poetry might seem like an unlikely pair, but both are rooted in structure, rhythm and precision. Both rely on clarity – distilling complex ideas into their simplest, most elegant form. And ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...