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 ...

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

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

Originally from Kirkuk, Baban Kerkuki has spent years establishing himself as a poet in Dutch literary circles.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

Where was this poem, "Nothing New," discovered? PARINI ... tree has given my heart a change of mood and saved some part of a day I had rued. LIMBONG: Why do you think he published that poem ...

In the early 2000s, Monica Lewinsky retreated into private life — at least to the extent it was possible. In the decade-ish ...

T o mark Valentine’s Day, the White House posted a meme across its X, Instagram, and Facebook social media accounts. The post included a new take on the popular “roses are red, violets are blue” ...

A new docuseries following an epic ... 80-year-old Forrest Fenn in the Rocky Mountains — and the cryptic 24-line poem that was the key to finding the ultimate prize. More than 300,000 people ...

MICHEL MARTIN, BYLINE: Reginald Dwayne Betts has authored four collections of poetry and a memoir ... you know, had a new friend that was showing me things and revealing things to me that I ...