Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet and star of President Joe Biden's inauguration, has met Michelle Obama only three times, most recently on Inauguration Day. But she left a lasting impression on the ...

Simone White doing a guerrilla reading at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos © Lawrence Schwartzwald, used with permission; no reproduction without express ...

I have had this poet in my tickler file for several months now, waiting for the release of his new poetry book. “Threads of Resilience: Weaving the Human Spirit Through Poetry” was officially launched ...

You know, most poetry was - still is pronounced in a monotone or a dual-tone where, you know - it's like I'm talking now in a sort of monotone. But there are possibilities in conversation where you go ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A local restaurant is looking forward to their first poetry night featuring an award winning poet and it’s an event you don’t want to miss. KB Cafe Owner Katherine Bernard and ...

When its doors opened in 1966, The Poetry Project was intended to inspire cross-generational conversations between writers in a space that felt safe and artistically generative during a time of social ...

While wrapping up his interview with Michael Silverblatt, U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin wondered — why can’t interviewers simply read previous interviews to glean answers to repeated questions?

As the year draws to a close, we asked a few NPR reporters to reflect on their favorite pieces of tape from 2006. Debbie Elliott kicks it off with a look back at her interview with the poet Jack ...

After the New Yorker, a real press photo, maybe. The poet Michael Robbins lives in Chicago, quotes both Lil Wayne and Paul Muldoon fluently, and studs his criticism with punchlines like “This sort of ...

Poetry had never before brought me so much laughter, nor had it ever been written in real time before me. I had always wondered about that — about what it would be like to speak-write a poem or short ...

ALLEN GINSBERG: (Reading) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the Negro streets at dawn, looking for an angry fix.