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 ...

Three COVID-19 "community heroes" will take the field as honorary captains during the Super Bowl LV coin toss on February 7, but not before getting a poetic introduction. The NFL has asked Amanda ...

This past April, Art House Productions set off to seek submissions from New Jersey-based poets for its Jersey City Community Poem Project with the theme “Life in the Pandemic and Beyond: Quarantine, ...

“We’ve been presenting poets who come and read their works for about five or six years,” said Mark Foradori, one of the co-founders of the Prairie Art Brothers. “I thought it would be a good idea to ...

There is no shortage of classic holiday literature. Think "The Night Before Christmas," "A Christmas Carol," "The Polar Express." Well, MORNING EDITION listeners, get ready to add another work to the ...

Inspired by a poem recited at President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January and the outpouring of support it received, Penn State Altoona English professor Erin Murphy came up with a unique way to ...

During the CPB program at the PBS Annual Meeting earlier this month in Las Vegas, poet and best-selling author Kwame Alexander read an original crowdsourced poem he wrote after speaking with people ...

We asked and your pets answered. NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander shares his latest community crowd sourced poem from pet owners around the country, from ages six to 86. We heard from over 700 of ...