For the latest "Morning Edition" community poem, Rachel Martin and poet Kwame Alexander ask listeners for poetry submissions. This round, the call-out is for poems in letter, or epistolary, form.

Carrie Oeding is a native of Minnesota. She received her M.F.A. from Eastern Washington University and her Ph.D. in from Ohio University, where she was awarded the Claude Kantner Fellowship. She ...

"A Confession to a Friend in Trouble" was published in "Wessex Poems and Other Verses" (Harper, 1898). About Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England, on June 2, 1840.

His collections of poetry include "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) and "In the Seven Woods" (1903). Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923. He died on Jan. 28, 1939.

In this short poem, called Till The Moon, award-winning Somali Canadian poet Ifrah Hussein is that friend, delivering in these lines a few truths that may stay with you longer than you'd care to ...

May 05, 2025 — How do you let the people you care about know they’re important to you? Oscar Sarmiento, of Potsdam, wrote a poem for an old family friend and shared it with NCPR.