Along dozens of businesses in Arlington Heights, hopeful poems detailing perseverance, hope, history, passion and community strength have been painted on storefronts to inspire the community to shop ...

Tumultuous times create heightened, often complex, emotions. It can be hard to voice or even identify our feelings when faced ...

It was a rough evening outside but a warm feeling within. Lynn and I were with fellows and gals passing out food outside a closed church in Norfolk’s Park Place. The rain came down but the smiles ...

NPR poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's latest community poem started with a request to consider what follows after the words "I dream a world." 'This Is Our Dream': A Crowdsourced Poem To Inspire ...

The collection starts on a note of hope, moves on to the afflictions of humanity, before concluding with a renewed belief in ...

The poet Rumi wrote, "Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love. We're thinking about it at Morning ...

Poetry can help us become more human. We saw it on display as 22-year-old inaugural poet Amanda Gorman read her stirring poem "The Hill We Climb" last week. It felt joyous and truthful, necessary and ...