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I vividly remember my first yoga class. My then-roommate and I had accidentally signed up for an intermediate level practice.

It was as green as a lizard. Jess is as graceful as a gazelle. Try using metaphors and similes to make your own poetry or other writing more descriptive and interesting. Some similes are used a ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write a dream poem.

Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

As Louisiana Poet Laureate, Alison Pelegrin, writer in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, is Louisiana’s acting ...

Poet Amanda Hawkins shares their experience writing a poem they initially resisted writing and how Hawkins was able to move past that feeling and write.

The trailer for "28 Years Later" uses the same eerie Rudyard Kipling poem that's played during the military's survival and ...

Another year is gone. Here at NHPR, we wanted to celebrate with poetry. Another year is gone, and here at NHPR, we wanted to celebrate with poetry. We asked for your original poetry reflecting on ...