Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

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 ...

Poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith. Credit: Shawn Miller/flickr/CC BY 2.0 Read excerpts of Tracy K. Smith’s poems, “My God, It’s Full of Stars” and “Watershed.” Read excerpts of Rafael ...

One of the literary creative functions of the sep-con articulation process (actively conceiving separation and connection concomitantly) is the construction of poetic structure or form, producing ...

Song Lin’s poem, translated by Dong Li, primarily uses interesting images to articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once. The poet left China in the ...

Heartbreak disrupts attachment, identity, and meaning. Poetry may help the mind give shape to what ordinary language cannot ...