These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

While the search for Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate is in full swing, I took a little time off to catch the last weekend ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on ...

I began to be tense as a voyeur. I’ve learned something new about myself these past few days, which is that I am not naturally drawn to love poems, but rather to poems about love gone wrong (I ...

Where was this poem, "Nothing New," discovered? PARINI ... in his face today somehow wakens the memories of those childhood days. And frankly, we're all sad about those days that are gone by.

While we may feel overwhelmed and helpless as political machinations turn, Wordsworth’s wisdom is still relevant. We need to ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...