Ralph Lenzmeier wrote the following poem for his wife, Renee. It was published in a Forum ad on Jan. 11, the day the couple would have celebrated their 63rd anniversary. I remember the first time I ...

I remember standing outside of class and him looking at me like I was the only girl in the room. I remember smiling and giggling nervously as I entered class feeling his eyes still on me. I remember ...

Since Nobel laureate and Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott died Friday, remembrances have flooded in for the complicated but mighty writer, who captured the lush beauty of the Caribbean and ...

"Remember the sky you were born under. Know each of the star's stories..." This is a must watch 3-minute visual poem short film from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference 2021. They commissioned a set of ...

I thought for December to give you something about a tree, but not one cut down and brought inside, and not a fake one. A real one on top of Mount Pisgah in California. A real one that’s half burned ...

Coming up with a super secure password that’s easy to remember can be difficult sometimes. With a little poetry, however, you can create a very strong password that will stick in your head like a ...

Poet and educator Kwame Alexander stops by to chat about poetry with NPR's Rachel Martin. He shares some ideas for poems to read with kids and tips for getting kids to write some of their own. Oh, the ...

It used to be that stories weren’t written down, they were told and passed down orally. Thanks to the invention of written language and Gutenberg’s printing press, today’s stories and poems are mostly ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall, a candid, unaffected writer who examined love, loss and rural American life, died Saturday at the age of 89. Hall said he saw no reason to spend life writing ...

I am a member of the third generation, a term that is relatively new and refers to the children of the children of survivors. My mother’s father, Moshe Nemeth, is a Holocaust survivor, and, growing up ...