Every morning I feed a piece of blank paper into my Wedgefield 200 manual typewriter. I type the date, I confidently slide the carriage to the right and I begin typing whatever is there to be typed.

The poet Brad Leithauser has written that Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) was, like John McRae (“In Flanders Fields”) and Chidiock Tichbourne (“Tichbourne’s Elegy”), a poet who effectively wrote one poem.

My days start with coffee and some time at the typewriter. Yes, typewriter. I fill a page each day with whatever comes out when I start typing. I put them in a pile and, on special days, I dust them ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Music on Christmas Morning,” appeared originally in 1846, in a volume of poetry by three authors, purportedly brothers: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The book was a stunning ...

Our poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander is a big fan of the power nap. Research shows how restorative naps can be. Has it been that way for you? Tell us in the form of a poem. For inspiration, Alexander ...

Love can be hard to put into words. Poets have been trying for millennia. For Valentine's Day, Morning Edition is offering a love poem request line. Tell us about a moment in your life regarding love ...

A good poem can jolt our minds into thinking about the country’s most important stories in unexpected ways, our National editor writes. By Marc Lacey Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, ...

President Biden's inauguration was far from the first time 22-year-old Amanda Gorman gave a moving performance. Gorman, who became the youngest known inaugural poet when she read "The Hill We Climb" ...

POET TOM ROBERTS has been praised on This Morning for his "beautiful' and "amazing" poem on the future of the world after the coronavirus outbreak. Read his incredible poem in full here. Poet Tom ...