My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Angela Jackson, who lives in Chicago, Illinois in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood. She fell in love with poetry in first grade and was writing her ...

Prolific poet and biographer Tom Clark died this month at the age of 77, leaving behind a substantial body of writing that exemplifies his penchants for lyricism, wit, and brevity, as well as a ...

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.

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 ...

Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “ The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays.” Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year. Follow ...

W.S. Merwin died Friday at the age of 91. He was one of the United States' most prolific poets — he won the Pulitzer Prize twice.

Indeed, Beth's poetry is defined by an intellectual examination of the interior of the human experience, something her students remember about her from when she taught at Bellevue Community College.

Colorfully illustrated, the book contains more than 120 poems, including a dozen by Hoberman -- mostly short poems, but a few long ones to challenge the memory of young ones.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Ukrainian writer and poet Victoria Amelina, who was among those killed in a Russian strike at a pizza restaurant last month.