NPR asked for your poems inspired by memories of home. What we received was overwhelming ... my mother went to the hospital and never came back; when my toys were in a box by the curb as we ...

she jokes. “Seriously, I have no idea.” The poem, which begins with the line “and the people stayed home,” is a gentle, hopeful look back on life in quarantine. It portrays lockdown as a ...

This poem is also the opposite of everything I ... Lines tumble into one another. At last we are back home, exhaling into the final couplet. The honey and bread are where we left them, but ...

all but one, who watches me astutely from the lowest branch of the mango tree that you planted the year I was born.

CLAIM A poem that talks about self-isolation and staying at home is being circulated on social media platforms with a claim that it was a prophetic poem written way back in 1869 and was reprinted ...

PATRICIA Jarvis has shared this poem with readers. It was written by her father, Collins Andrew Fisher Brennan, who died in 1981. It was written by her father, Collins Andrew Fisher Brennan ...

Listen to the section you heard in Activity 2 once more, and then repeat the lines back to yourself ... this part of the poem from memory. You could perform it for someone at home, or to yourself ...

Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it. Sharon Olds is the author of several books of poetry, including “The Dead and the Living,” winner of the 1983 National Book Critics ...