Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

Poems can evoke laughter, tears, and thoughtful reflection. Recent research has shown their therapeutic effects: how they can reduce stress, relieve grief, and increase well-being.

You can take a poem with you anywhere, but knowing its origins can help make it yours. Practice by playing our poetry emoji ...

I tried to capture that sense in my poem, "Nature, You Brute." I wanted to evoke a sense of that natural violence — of storms and floods and earthquakes and volcanoes — and stand it up against ...

When I moved over from being a movie reviewer to my current job at the Book Review, I thought, Well, I’d like to do something with poetry ... while you’re freaking out about everything ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she ...

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of ... lines from which still regularly surface in my brain unbidden — “Kiss the mouth / that tells you, here, / here is the world” — even though ...

I've been trying to gain inspiration in everything that I see. Craig Norris: And now your book I Cut My Tongue on a ... Craig Norris: Does poetry do that for you? Kyo Lee: Yes, absolutely.