KUNC is inviting you to celebrate National Poetry Month with us! We’re asking the community to share their poetic skills with ...

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 ...

William Shakespeare is the bestselling poet of all time. The word 'poetry' is from the Greek term poiesis, which means 'making'. The oldest written poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh originating from ...

Interpreting trauma through verse In 1949, the German philosopher and social theorist wrote, “to write poetry after Auschwitz ...

I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder — louder — louder!” It was this initial ...

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” That quote from former Poet Laureate of the United States of America Rita Dove comes to mind when I read poetry written by bereaved ...

One of the small consolations of these shortening, post-midsummer days is that soon we’ll get to see the dawn again. Sunrise is one of nature’s more uplifting experiences, and it has inspired lots of ...

WH Auden (1907 – 1973), whose full name is Wystan Hugh Auden, has been described as many things, including one of the great (or greatest) poets of the twentieth century, as an English, and as an ...

The following poem from the collection is an example of how Faiq used poetry as a means of collective encouragement. The poem ...