NPR’s Scott Detrow and poet Kate Baer share a favorite bookstore in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They recently met there to discuss Baer’s new poetry collection How About Now, which wrestles with the ...
Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott If ...
Is it just me, or is Poetry Month everywhere this year? Poet Mary Ruefle had something to say about this: Every April, since the establishment of National Poetry Month, I receive a call from my local ...
My guest this week on "Poetry from Daily Life" is Heidi Mordhorst from Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi was a poet from early childhood (and now publishes an ...
The New York Times: Day 4: This poem is about staying up all night. Use it to greet the day.
A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...
Day 4: This poem is about staying up all night. Use it to greet the day.
NPR: 'What we need right now is tenderness,' former poet laureate Ada Limón says
Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya ...