Recently I was driving the Interstate early on a Saturday night, heading to the Big City for a Big Night with my baby. NPR news had finished, and, in my part of the world anyway, just as night follows ...

In a poem midway through Mark Jarman’s collection The Heronry, a student on a trip abroad (to France?) makes trouble for herself. She loses her passport, skips class, gets drunk, and gets arrested.

Mexican artists José Olivarez and Antonio Salazar are in conversation on masculinity, community and love with their new poetry and photography collection, Por Siempre (“Forever,” Haymarket Books, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Young interview: Why his Brown poems are beautiful and essential Kevin Young perfectly illustrates poetry’s enduring ...

University of Dayton English professor emeritus Herbert Martin talks about his life and his new poetry collection The Shape of Regret. English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ...

I'm not that good at either one. I know, this is an odd confession for a pastor to make. You don't like to hear your pastor saying, "I'm no good at praying." And don't get me wrong, it's not that I ...

“The word tender comes to mind,” says Tamara Wellons, who manages the artist in residence program at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Fairfax. In a space on the second floor, near the elevators and ...

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that poetry is one of the least appreciated and accepted forms of literature. You hear people say “I don’t get it,” “don’t understand it,” “it seems so obscure.” A ...