If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

Oscar Sarmiento of Potsdam wrote the poem, "Sisters" after a hike with his son and a family friend to a mountain waterfall in ...

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power ...

April is National Poetry Month. It's also calving season, you know, when cows give birth to their babies. Apparently, someone here has an unfulfilled yearning for ranch life - no shade. But because of ...

WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.

If you find yourself saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT, you're not alone—and you might be costing OpenAI more than you think. A recent comment by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that ...

A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” ...

Could you tell me about yourself and your work as a poet? I have been publishing poetry professionally since 2009, on and off. I primarily do genre poetry, which is poetry that falls sort of in ...

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing ...

I thought, ‘Oh, this is what a poem is. You can see the shape of a thought or a feeling on the page and guide someone through it,’” Wenstrup recalled. Thinking at the time, “this is a form ...

This story was originally published by The 19th on April 10, 2025. The U.S. House has passed a bill that voting rights groups have repeatedly warned would make it harder for millions of Americans ...