At Christmastime, one tradition is to hope. In this medical column, can I prescribe some pill, balm, salve or nostrum that will give us hope? This year I would like to prescribe a poem I have shared ...

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews, Storey Publishing, 208 pages. $14.95. Credit: Courtesy This January, Amanda Gorman’s reading at the presidential inauguration ...

I recently taught a short six-class course for Homeschool Connections on “Poems Every Catholic Should Know.” The text for the course was my book of the same title, which is an anthology of Christian ...

The poem in this Hint I have offered before for the same reason, a gift for Christmas. But I believe it is definitely worth repeating. Christmas is a time that symbolizes hope. It is a religious ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...

There is a poem in the midst of St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints that moves me to tears whenever I read it. Sometimes I save it for the end of a day that has been a grind, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A local seventh grader is garnering national recognition for earning a top spot in the 2021 Inaugural Poem Contest, among hundreds of entries from across the United States.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Another death. Another funeral. Another friend taken too early by that cruel, smarmy bastard – ...

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves. Back for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Relax, take a breath, take a read on some of the poetry that Suzi Q. Smith has been sharing during the coronavirus pandemic. Her “Poems for the End of the ...

Back for another edition of MORNING EDITION's poetry segment with our poet in residence, Kwame Alexander. Hey, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. Like Rumi said, let the beauty we love be ...