Using metaphors — saying one thing is like another — is a way of finding unexpected connections in the world, poet Allan Wolf writes.

One of the most famous poems ever written and arguably the most significant 20th-century work of poetry, “The Wasteland” is T.S. Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece.

NPR's Scott Simon asks "The English Patient" author Michael Ondaatje about his new collection of poems, "A Year of Last Things." ...