Tess Vigeland: We’ve been asking our listeners to send in their favorite poems about money, work, business, really anything about the economy. An e-mail from Elizabeth Dodge in Culver City, Calif., ...

As we enter "cozy season," we're revisiting our conversation with Ada Limon, who just wrapped up her tenure as the U.S. Poet ...

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” That quote from former Poet Laureate of the United States of America Rita Dove comes to mind when I read poetry written by bereaved ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In honor of National Poetry Month, we asked readers to join us in ...

Queen Elizabeth II herself famously said, "grief is the price we pay for love". It’s a beautiful and true statement, but it ...

The Unbound Book Festival is happening in Columbia this weekend and KBIA has been speaking with some of this year’s featured authors. Brian Turner is a poet, essayist and musician. Last year, he ...

The late British poet laureate Ted Hughes repeatedly tried to perfect a poem describing the night his wife Sylvia Plath killed herself, drafts of a work published for the first time show. The draft ...

This week’s Bookshelf is about a gorgeous new book of poetry, an update on the Townsend Prize for Fiction and a special “choir” for lovers of books and indie bookstores. Happy Pub Day: One of the ...