These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Ever write something, then lose it and wish you could remember? When I went to Mohave Community College years ago, I wrote a ...

After memorizing one poem, I moved on to others. By repeating the lines to myself, I could replace my own gloomy background noise with borrowed perspectives that seemed brighter, sharper ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

This is a scene-by-scene recap of The Way Home Season 3 Episode 10, "If you Could Read My Mind." Proceed at your own risk!

By 1939, his publisher could describe him as “the best-loved poet in America without a question.” He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times—the only poet ever to do so. Becoming a public ...

Werner Herzog had never even seen a movie until he was 11. Now 82, the visionary director is working constantly, still making ...

Could I learn new skills? Crochet, knitting, sewing, baking, paper craft and gardening. What shall I choose? I'd like to try them all. How much time does a hobby take? If only I was retired. I ...

Write a poem about a young person armed not with a fist or a gun, but an idea. An idea that could free us all. Write a poem about a door unlocking. Opening. And what it feels like to walk through ...

Through his poetry, with his poetry ... watching it “warm the frozen swamp as best it could / With the slow smokeless burning of decay.” Shortly after writing “My Butterfly,” Frost ...