With previously uncollected or unpublished works, a definitive edition deepens our understanding of the Nobel laureate’s ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

I’m a fan of narrative poems, poems that tell a story. As I see it, that’s how poetry started, with epic poems that had to be memorized to be passed down, as people didn’t have printing presses or ...

Human speech is rich with rhythm. As a person speaks, certain syllables are naturally emphasized, whereas others blend into the background. In this way, regular conversation becomes poetic. Language ...

Where do poems come from? I’m asked that question a lot. Where do you get your ideas? Where do poems come from? After my school assembly programs, I like to allow time for students and teachers to ask ...

November stands as a quiet bridge between autumn’s golden farewell and winter’s silver silence. It is a month of reflection, ...

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

One of my strongest poetry memories took place at a black-tie dinner at the Library of Congress where George W. Bush introduced his wife Laura with a poem. He explained that she had been away on a ...

“Cowgirl Poetry” is a compilation of poems “celebrating life in this valley and the healing power of ranch life, horses, and ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...