Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any day? Whether it’s with a warm friendship quote or a thoughtful gift (like a book about friendship), there are so many ...

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.

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...

Today is International Friendship Day, which means that it is a time to celebrates your pals and let them know how much they mean to you. Whether that is by sending them a message on social media, or ...

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., ...

Some people (academics perhaps) might think it rather sentimental to describe poems as ‘friends’, yet when poetry sustains your emotional life you know it’s true. The Poetry Exchange is a project and ...