is accepting poems for the 2nd annual children’s pet-poetry contest, part of their Pets Add Life campaign. Third, fourth and fifth-grade students are invited to write an original poem about their pets ...

April marks the 13th anniversary of National Poetry Month. To help celebrate, budding Emily Dickinsons and Edgar Allan Poes are encouraged to participate in the second annual "Paws for Poetry" Contest ...

One thing that's nice about having pets, they give you unconditional love. Poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is asking you to share a poem in the... According to your pet: share a poem One thing ...

We asked and your pets answered. NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander shares his latest community crowd sourced poem from pet owners around the country, from ages six to 86. We heard from over 700 of ...

We inadvertently reveal ourselves in our writing, possibly more so in the case of poetry than any other genre. It can be both alarming and enlightening to see preoccupations leap out from between the ...

Do people read poetry any more? I mean, poems written by living poets and not just by dead ones that have gone through the spin-cycle of textbooks, of epigraphs at the beginning of books, and of ...

One thing that's nice about having pets, they give you unconditional love. But how might they think about you if they could speak for themselves? Poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is asking you to ...