Morning Edition resident poet Kwame Alexander wants to read your poems that respond to art. He's selected two paintings from which to draw... Poetry Challenge: Paint A Picture With Words For those who ...

Growing up can be an experience that is joyous in one moment and melancholy in the next. It is a period of fraught exploration where the world is fresh and new for you to discover. When a piece of art ...

Five poets discuss their recent and forthcoming collections, which pair verse and photography. The second collection by Colin Channer, Console (FSG, July), is inspired by his Jamaican birthplace, his ...

Countless picture books follow the same narrative structure, in which a character faces a challenge and then — at the end of approximately 500 words — overcomes that challenge, or doesn’t. We call ...

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Maryfrances Wagner, who lives in the Greater Kansas City Area. This is her second column in the series. The first appeared on Nov. 19, 2023. Maryfrances ...

POEMS ALOUD Written by Joseph Coelho. Illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett “Poems are made to be performed!” Coelho declares early in this rousing book, which guides young readers through the basics of ...

Have you ever stood in front of a redwood and wondered, “Wouldn’t it be great if this was poetry instead of a tree?” Neither did Joyce Kilmer. Kelin Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather, however, have set ...

Microsoft recently taught its XiaoIce chatbot, a Chinese language conversational AI, how to interpret pictures as poems. We’re not sure if that counts as inspired writing, but it’s an interesting step ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...