We asked ten literary experts to recommend the climate poem that has spoken to them most powerfully. Their answers span over ...

This National Poetry Month at KUNC, the third time’s the charm! 2026 is the third year we’ve called for listener-submitted ...

Just about every day now has a special observance associated with it. Among other things, April 30th is National Honesty Day, ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

One prompt: ‘The Love of Toes After an Injury in the Style of Poe.’ Lots of people claim that writing poetry is something ...

To paraphrase Audre Lorde, we need poetry because there are no new ideas — only new ways of making them felt. "And, boy, do ...

A witty and tender collection, "Old Lady Poems" finds Dotty Armstrong celebrating the humor, intimacy and shifting ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

Poetry might not be what customers were thinking about when they walked into Tinker Coffee on North Illinois Street, but a ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...