Five poets discuss their recent and forthcoming collections, which pair verse and photography. The second collection by Colin Channer, Console (FSG, July), is inspired by his Jamaican birthplace, his ...

For those who follow poetry challenges on Morning Edition, our new one involves a vocabulary lesson: ekphrastic. Ekphrastic poems respond to a piece of art. According to the Poetry Foundation: Through ...

Countless picture books follow the same narrative structure, in which a character faces a challenge and then — at the end of approximately 500 words — overcomes that challenge, or doesn’t. We call ...