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 — ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a friend poem.

I don’t hate this one but I feel like he could do better still. I like the rhyme and it feels like he put a bit of effort into it, I just feel like it’s not very personalised to me. I’d probably give ...

San Diego has named Paola Capó-García as its third Poet Laureate since the program began in 2020. A former journalist and ...

Children's poet Constance Levy, a former educator who lives in St. Louis, encourages readers of all ages to tell their own ...

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.

Then I turn to the poem on the next page and the story disappears. So, as we write poems, it’s important to remember that we’re really telling these stories of a moment. The question we should ...