I'm joined now by MORNING EDITION's poet in residence, Kwame Alexander. Hey, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. Rachel Martin, I got a question for you. MARTIN: OK. ALEXANDER: What did the ...

At an Army camp in JapanI first met my friend We were just boys not oldenough to be called men I never met a fellaquite like Paul beforeWe did everything togetherwe were always active and never bored ...

Friendship, for poets, has long been grist for the mill. Anyone studying poetry is likely to stumble upon literary friendships – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge come instantly to mind, ...

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England, on June 2, 1840. A fiction writer as well as a poet, he published eight collections of poetry, including "Poems of the Past and the Present" (Harper & Bros., ...

Sometimes it's hard to put loss into words, but poems about losing a loved one can help you comfort a friend, family member, or acquaintance that has just lost someone close. Poems can also validate ...

Poet Daniel Johnson has long tackled difficult subjects. But his recently published poem "In the Absence of Sparrows" took on a much more personal note. It's a poem he penned for and about his friend ...

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His collections of poetry include "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) and "In the Seven Woods" (1903). Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.

Imagine a poem as your friend... this is exactly what award-winning podcast and project The Poetry Exchange does, and it has brought comfort, solidarity and companionship to many people for ten years.

Maybe you don't know this: We're in the middle of National Poetry Month. I hesitated before telling you. Part of me winces at such contrived celebrations. So often they end up lofty intentions run to ...