NPR asked for your poems inspired by memories of home. What we received was overwhelming: 1,400 submissions in just two days, with lines that draw on all five senses — in vivid detail and gauzy ...

Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon is encouraging Kentuckians to tell their own stories and share them with others as part of the Kentucky Arts Council's project "Where I'm From": A Poetry of ...

It sounds like a monumental task. Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon has initiated a sweeping statewide effort in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council to collect poems from every county in ...

“Remember, you are the expert on you. No one else sees the world as you do; no one else has your material to draw from.” – George Ella Lyon “All of us has a from. And today I will tell you about my ...

“I am from a place I can’t go back to; This year on the Island has felt like a new life, that I am still waiting to begin.” That’s the opening line of 10-year-old Vince Mathison’s poem “Where I’m From ...

Morning Edition's resident poet Kwame Alexander compiled your poems inspired by memories of home, and the final crowdsourced poem is full of rich... 'Where I'm From': A Crowdsourced Poem That Collects ...