MK Asante reads a poem composed for Morning Edition titled, "In Summer." The Baltimore-based writer says it is in tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet. This next poem is by ...

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Henry David Thoreau on July 12, here’s a summertime poem by Professor Emeritus of Biology Robert Chute, a noted Maine poet. Chute’s “Heat Wave in Concord” reimagines ...

Think weekend barbecues, ice cream cones, ballpark games — or whatever summer has meant for you. Ideally, your poem can be read in one breath. One more thing: Try not to use the word "summer." ...

Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops ... So, too, the human voice of the poem begins lost — ready to worship but bereft of a God. In the “blue blue night” of despair ...