The final one, Visiting, is a response to the Irish photographer Amelia Stein’s exquisite photo of a high wooden shutter ...

Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all? If a relationship — the pleasant and heart-breaking memories alike — could be completely wiped from your memory, would you choose ...

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 ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

In this moving elegy to his infant daughter, Saddiq Dzukogi reminds us of how complex grief can be. The body’s responses to grief offer a way for us to cope with its deep pain. Here, the poem, “So ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey kicks off the “Where Poetry Lives” tour with NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown in New York. Photos by Anne Davenport Editor’s Note: PBS NewsHour kicks off a special poetry ...

Content warning: The following piece includes mentions of suicide and sexual violence. Poetry, like the other arts, takes many forms that lead to many different ends. Some say that poems are good for ...

PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown, right, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, center right, launch the series “Where Poetry Lives.” Their first stop: Brooklyn. Photo by Anne Davenport/NewsHour “A ...

Her aunt wanted her to become a teacher. Her mom suggested nursing school. She ended up in a secretarial course, where she learned to type before she married young and raised four children in the ...

Last night, when I was looking for a subject for this column, but didn’t know which one, I was lucky enough to receive this request from Guanaíra Amaral, on the other side of the world, from Oceania: ...