For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

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 ...

Stanford’s Creative Writing program hosted poet Hieu Minh Nguyen in the Poetry-in-Conversation interview series on Wednesday. Speaking with a small, avid audience at Mariposa House, the former Stegner ...

And then I also write poems that are about art, or about forms of art. For example, I have a poem about a musician, I have a poem about a painting, I have a poem about a picture, a photograph, I have ...