These 12 words, once chosen, will each be offered to a local poet as the "creative spark" for a new poem, to be broadcast on the BBC on National Poetry Day, 28th September.

A poem by Isaiah Hull, a 19-year-old spoken word artist, will feature all 12 words. Poets Vidyan Ravinthiran, Dean Wilson, Liz Berry and Hollie McNish are also contributing.

For a while people were into collecting pet rocks. Later, others were collecting ashes from Mount St. Helen’s volcano in Washington. I imagine both the rock and the containers are, by now, ga… ...

If poetry has taught me anything it has done so by asking me to set myself aside and listen. When I do that listening today, I hear a call of mourning coming from the Gaza Strip.

April is poetry month. The Kent District Library has The Diatribe, a spoken word poetry group, connecting with youth in classrooms across the county for workshops.

November 12, 2012 3:28 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. WWI Poetry: ... Every schoolchild learns some of these World War I poems and the classroom is one of the only places they can be found today.

While poetry long has been a staple of K-12 English classes, spoken-word poetry, an art form that extends from the beat poetry of the 1950s to contemporary rap, is less commonly taught.

This week’s guest on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Matt Mason, who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Matt, who was the Nebraska State Poet from 2019-2024, started writing in high school and not long after ...

A poem by Isaiah Hull, a 19-year-old spoken word artist, will feature all 12 words. Poets Vidyan Ravinthiran, Dean Wilson, Liz Berry and Hollie McNish are also contributing.