Poetry and social media join forces once again in April. Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with its 3rd annual Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR ...

The poetry of Shivani Gupta, drenched in personal memory, masters the delicate craft of creating space for a reader to see ...

Let us start with a little poetry joke, shall we? Q: What did the poet say to Luke Skywalker? A: Metaphors be with you! Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!

The concrete jungle is on fire. These symbolic flames blaze throughout “No Matter,” a collection of poems by Jana Prikryl. The author paints New York City as a metaphorical inferno burning with deep ...

In her Foley poetry contest submission, “Myself, the Almost Infinite (A ghazal),” Rainey Sierra writes about “My mother’s eyes—bloodshot boondocks—Chicago sprouting from Tennessee soil, everything ...

St. Joseph High School juniors in English teacher Alicia Yrle’s class recently wrote extended metaphor poems as part of an assignment related to the poem “Huswifery “ by Edward Taylor. It compares the ...

When asked to describe her poetry, Jean Prokott said, “It's a loaded question for sure, one that poets are always trying to answer when it has none. But a word that sticks out for me when defining it ...

How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the ...