Discover poet Amanda Gorman’s best quotes and excerpts from poems to leave you feeling more energized and hopeful.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - On the final day of 2013, the Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor features a poem from poet Jack Ridl, former professor of English at Hope College. The poem, titled "The End of ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...

Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.

Al Hassan knows a thing or two about global conflict. “I’ve gone through war, genocide, poverty, myself firsthand, and I know ...

The poem in this Hint I have offered before for the same reason, a gift for Christmas. But I believe it is definitely worth repeating. Christmas is a time that symbolizes hope. It is a religious ...

Basketball has been described by some as "poetry in motion." The world of high school basketball is shared through poetry itself in the latest collection by nationally-recognized poet Jack Ridl, ...

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 ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves. Back for ...

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 ...