“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken to everything in the universe.” – John Muir I bought a new flashlight for ...

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.

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heather Lende, who lives in Haines, Alaska. Alaska has a Writer Laureate rather than a Poet Laureate and Heather, who has just finished a term in that ...