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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Though "Leaf Manifesto" has yet to be published, the Halcyon Award is not the only honor it has received. In January 2024, ...