One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Watch the celebrated actress recite Maria Woodford’s ‘elegy for a nissan micra’ which came out on top in this year’s time-themed contest ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a "Just Like (blank)" poem.

Through poetry, Ariv Gupta shows how being your true self is the key to connection. The third-year computer science student ...

Geeta Tripathee is known for her contributions as a poet, lyricist, essayist, literary critic, and scholar in Nepali literature. I met her at Ratna Rajya College, where she teaches, and we enjoyed an ...

Louis in a neighborhood of trees, birds, squirrels and other creatures she welcomes into her poems. Connie started writing poems in first grade. Her first book of poetry, “I’m Going to Pet a ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Write Action is sponsoring a special 2025 Poems Around Town event, and has issued a call for poetry submissions.