BOSTON -- Last year, Mac Jones was coming off a very successful rookie season that ended in rather brutal fashion. This year, Jones is coming off a rather poor second season, one filled with ...

A study in the journal Scientific Reports suggests readers like AI-generated poems more than those written by poets like Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot. Nonexpert readers of poems from William ...

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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 ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse. By Elisa Gabbert I remember where I was when I first read two short poems. One, Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me” (“you fit ...

Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any day? Whether it’s with a warm friendship quote or a thoughtful gift (like a book about friendship), there are so many ...

Famous poets (tortured or not) have taken inspiration from Swift’s music. Can you match the poem to the song? By Jennifer Harlan Taylor Swift is many things: a pop superstar, a business mogul, a cat ...

When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to the ...