poetry

Country music star Kelsea Ballerini had no intentions of starting a new job as an author in 2020

Jenn Lim, CEO of Delivering Happiness, recommends “Inward” for anyone young at heart, in mind and in spirit.

Poet Helen Lopez learned about money from her mother and by working as a teen. She believes a financial education can help Latinos achieve equity.

Poet Joan Murray wrote “Survivors – Found” on an NYC-bound Amtrak train four days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. She met some firemen who were on their way to look for survivors and was inspired to write about those who survived that day. Twenty years later, we look back on that day through her words.

Olympians and Paralympians came up with the lines. We put them together. Use our interactive haiku generator to create a Japanese haiku straight from the athletes.

From Charleston, South Carolina, to San Mateo County in California, poets laureate are receiving support from a program managed by the Academy of American Poets.

We’re blessed. 18-year-old Alexandra Huynh of Sacramento is 2021’s National Youth Poet Laureate. Through her work she wants to elevate her community of Sacramento, California and shed light on the Vietnamese American experience. Watch Huynh read her poem “Inheritance” live on LX News.

“I’m an Asian American woman speaking up.” Alice Tsui’s poem “Golden Light,” shared with NBCLX for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, raises a battle cry against AAPI hate and anti-Blackness.

We gave spoken word poet and America’s Got Talent winner Brandon Leake 4 topics and he had to come up with a poem for each in just a few seconds. And he did a great job!

“National Geographic Presents: IMPACT with Gal Gadot” is a documentary short series that follows women from around the world who are making a difference in their communities. Among them is Detroit figure skating coach Kameryn Everett, who was joined by one of her students, 8-year-old poet Livvy, for a conversation with LX News host Tabitha Lipkin and documentary director Vanessa...

“Blackness is the interruption you can’t ignore,” writes Kandice Head. The spoken word artist performed her poem “The Interruption” for NBCLX in honor of Black History Month.