Narrative means story and a narrative poem tells a story. Lots of poems are mainly about thoughts and feelings and not about telling a story, so this is a key difference. Key features of narrative ...

It would be even more pretentious of me than normal to try to name the absolute best adventure travel poems ever written—but I’m willing to try. These five classics should be placed near the ...

Caroline Kennedy isn't just an advocate for reading poetry. In her latest book, Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of memorizing poetry and presents a collection of poems ...

Crews’s poems, even when exploring grief, never lose that essential wonder and amazement at the world that comprise the best of poetry. Reading his poems is a joyful experience, and one that speaks ...

On the eve of poetry month, we look forward to our annual #NPRPoetry project. NPR's Michel Martin begins the series with the Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith.

Gorman’s latest poetry collection, “Call Us What We Carry,” offers reverence and effervescence, gravity and impishness, and poems that are focused, pithy and playfully heretical.