Every April, we ask our audience to help us celebrate National Poetry Month by writing their own poems. Whether you're an amateur or an award-winning poet, we want your haikus, your odes, your ...

April, once the second month of the Roman year is now our fourth month, and so we find ourselves one third of the way through our projected poetic calendar. If March was the month of Mars, god of ...

A couple walks along a dyke with spring flowers at the North Sea coastal village of Norddeich, Germany, April 26, 2010. Reuters/Christian Charisius The end of March means April showers followed by ...

According to T.S. Eliot, “April is the cruelest month.” That is certainly the most well-known line from his poem The Wasteland. It is one of those quotes many people have heard even if they haven’t ...

A particularly portable poem, good for tucking in the pocket of the mind. Read it twice with attention, and you have it forever.

Last month, you may have seen on your Facebook feed an influx of poems written by some of your friends and family. Co-workers as well. Your curiosity may have been piqued by the label tacked on to the ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, as well as National Poetry Month. This week's Take Five celebrates both art forms in the same place. Each of the five songs featured here was originally written as a ...