Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

The greatest casualty of our education system? Poetry. Either you’re from an older generation and you know a few lines by ...

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Dial-A-Poem - William Burroughs. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: This reading is from an unpublished book entitled "Ah Pook Is Here." CHANG: Poet and performance artist John Giorno ...

Ben Neideigh, of Brickerville, didn’t expect to make good on his goal to write poems for a year straight. A handful of Facebook friends liked and commented under the 2014 announcement. There, he ...

Here & Now ‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Evan Wang, the first young man to be named the National Youth Poet Laureate by the literary group Urban Word. His love for poetry began in his early teens, ...

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses? As ...