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Poetry season is just getting started across the state. Poetry Out Loud is a nationwide competition for high school students, ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

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NPR asked for your poems inspired by memories of home. What we received was overwhelming: 1,400 submissions in just two days, with lines that draw on all five senses — in vivid detail and gauzy ...