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.

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Morning Edition asked readers to submit poems in the form of letters, addressed to anyone. NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander drew from the... 'Love, Me' is a community poem crowdsourced from ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The sun is out. Flowers are blooming. Spring is here — finally. Each year, spring is coupled with a celebration of beauty, expression and the rhythmic qualities of language: We are talking about ...