Annie Dillard is rightly celebrated as a pioneer in creative nonfiction after her death on Sep. 15, 2026, at age 81. But the ...

The way loneliness skulks in one of Elizabeth Acevedo's poems probably would have felt familiar even before the pandemic forced us into more isolating situations. Beginning with the line "it's the ...

When was the last time you picked up a pen and composed a letter to a friend or a family member? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander reminds us that letter writing delivers something more to the ...

Poetry, perhaps more than any other form of writing, delves deep into emotions. And rhythm, from the haunting repetitions of "Annabel Lee" to the taunting questions of "The Love Song of J. Alfred ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Some poems just click in a way that other’s don’t. (For instance, why is Yeat’s “The Second Coming” so compelling while my three-volume epic on stoic philosophy, “StoneFace Agonistes,” can’t find a ...

Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most ...

Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995. He was teaching at Harvard that year, as he had been, one way or another, since 1979. Today — bluff and kind and 73 — Heaney will be ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Young poets are performing at poetry slams, pop-up events and salons around Australia – and publishing, too. Who are they – ...