Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...

MK Asante reads a poem composed for Morning Edition titled, "In Summer." The Baltimore-based writer says it is in tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet.

The title of this poem subverts expectations right away. After all, we associate summer with pleasure: vacations, the beach, sunshine. Each line operates in the declarative. Many lines end with a ...

Summer is the perfect season to dive into the world of poetry. With six free summer acrostic poem templates, half in color and half ready to be decorated, you can craft your own acrostic poems ...

An essay would be needed, but the essay form just isn’t a poem. So we’re stuck with translations that at least have a whiff of the spare particularities of the Chinese verse — translations such as ...

Suddenly, Last Summer. By Lisa Jarnot. FOR ROD SMITH Sun worshipper I, in the absence of the sun, in the things I don’t remember, the unfriendliness of night, the neon night and blue blue night ...

McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is immersive in the best ways — captivating, terrifying and occasionally ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.

Poetry Connection: This week, we feature a young poet who works at the Loan Closet. Meet Miguel Hernandez from Santa Barbara. He writes: “I am 24 years old, born and raised in Santa Barbara. I have ...