The play operates as an extended poetic metaphor that, in a magical realism sort of way, equates the process of falling in love with actually carving out a piece of your chest and entrusting it to ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Allan Wolf, who lives in Asheville, North Carollina. Allan discovered the power of writing when he was 12 years old and began to write on his ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always ...

Pennsylvania Poet Delves Into Metaphors, Myths As part of Tell Me More's series for National Poetry Month, host Michel Martin shares a poetic tweet from poet and adjunct English professor, Sorina ...

Visualize the metaphor (you can look up images on Google images) and list its qualities. Which one rises to the top? 03. Now use that one metaphor to think differently about your work.

Metaphors. A poem can be a rocket (zoom!) that I can ride beyond the sky. A poem can be a secret room. where I can watch the world walk by. ∘. A poem can be bright fireworks (boom!), ...

Metaphor of the Floating Life. By Song Lin, translated by Dong Li. On the twelve identical bridges not a single one without endless streams of traffic. The evening bell tolled, birds retrieved ...