Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

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.

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For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on ...

Matthew Zapruder’s new memoir, “Story of a Poem,” isn’t just about a poem. It’s also the story of a writer, a father, a husband, a son — and this story has a plot twist: The author’s ...

No one on earth can pretend. To know what's in God's plan. All we can do is take it on faith. And trust we'll see our loved ...

But “The Iliad” is not, of course, a poem purely about the clash of men. As Wilson deftly explains in her introduction to the new volume, the epic does not tell the story of the Trojan War.

How a poem transformed Christmas into the festive holiday it is today. The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus.

Marshall James Kavanaugh takes a battered old typewriter to a park and lets people give him a prompt for a poem. They walk away with a piece of art.

In his new book of poetry, "We Alive, Beloved," Joseph, 35, reflects on losing the baby that he and his wife, Porsha, so desperately wanted. The poem is titled “We Cry Together.” ...

I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...

As Bernthal performed the poem for her on Valencia Street, a man walked past with his two “decrepit-looking” dogs. One of them brushed against the woman’s leg and then started defecating on the ...