Morning Edition resident poet Kwame Alexander wants to read your poems that respond to art. He's selected two paintings from which to draw... Poetry Challenge: Paint A Picture With Words For those who ...

Countless picture books follow the same narrative structure, in which a character faces a challenge and then — at the end of approximately 500 words — overcomes that challenge, or doesn’t. We call ...

Five poets discuss their recent and forthcoming collections, which pair verse and photography. The second collection by Colin Channer, Console (FSG, July), is inspired by his Jamaican birthplace, his ...

POEMS ALOUD Written by Joseph Coelho. Illustrated by Daniel Gray-Barnett “Poems are made to be performed!” Coelho declares early in this rousing book, which guides young readers through the basics of ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...