Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

9/11 Poems Remember Time Before The Attacks It's easy to forget that when New York's World Trade Center opened in 1971, it was one of the brand-new marvels of the world. Host Scott Simon speaks ...

Clark — born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1941 — first fostered a passion for poetry at the University of Michigan, where he became a favorite student of the late former poet laureate Donald Hall ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand died Saturday from liposarcoma, a cancer in the fat cells. The former U.S. poet laureate, MacArthur fellow and author of more than a dozen books of poetry ...

It might not have seemed like it at the time, but all those schoolyard rhymes you memorized as a kid were poems in disguise. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...

The poems of Betyna Bock do not merely preserve emotional memory of the Holocaust, they enable us to understand such emotional memory. They are testimony to the fact that the shock, surprise, and ...

Remembering W.S. Merwin W.S. Merwin died Friday at the age of 91. ... He leaves us his vast collection of poems, including many about his deep love for the natural world.

The Poetry Society of New Hampshire is collecting poems about aging and its issues to be published in an anthology tentatively called "You Must Remember This: Poems about Aging and Memory." ...