STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: National Poetry Month just ended, but, really, when is it ever not time for a poem? MORNING EDITION is teaming with our contributor and poet Kwame Alexander, and we need your help. We need you to submit a poem made of couplets.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: Couplets did you say, Steve, couplets? Well, what are those, you wonder? Well, here's a clip from Rachel Martin's conversation with Kwame Alexander. He read an excerpt from his new book on our program yesterday.</s>KWAME ALEXANDER: (Reading) Game so deep, it's below. Air so swift, you breathe slow. Watch me fly from the free throw. Superman is sweet, yo. But Rachel is my heat, bro.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Come on.</s>KWAME ALEXANDER: (Laughter).</s>RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: It doesn't say that in the book, but I like that refresh (ph) (laughter).</s>KWAME ALEXANDER: Well, I added that line for you, Rachel. But a couplet is really easy. It's two lines, and the lines rhyme. And we want it to be about teamwork, having a team around you to help you rebound on and off the court. Take it literally, or you can take it metaphorically.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Yeah.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The NPR headquarters here has one of those electronic signs with news headlines creeping across them this morning. The headlines included a poetry call-out.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: And to submit your two-line poem about teamwork - something we know a lot about at this show - you can go to npr.org/morningpoem.
NPR's Morning Edition wants you to share a couplet, and author Kwame Alexander will pick a few and transform them into one, grand poem. The deadline is May 11.