When its doors opened in 1966, The Poetry Project was intended to inspire cross-generational conversations between writers in a space that felt safe and artistically generative during a time of social ...

As the year draws to a close, we asked a few NPR reporters to reflect on their favorite pieces of tape from 2006. Debbie Elliott kicks it off with a look back at her interview with the poet Jack ...

Poet Kim Sin-yong, Champion of Vagrancy Aesthetics, Dies at 81 Renowned for Yangdong Suite and vagrant-inspired poetry, Kims ...

Poet Amanda Gorman wrote a poem for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE officer this week. Gorman reads her poem and speaks ...

Simone White doing a guerrilla reading at the Museum of Modern Art (all photos © Lawrence Schwartzwald, used with permission; no reproduction without express ...

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While wrapping up his interview with Michael Silverblatt, U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin wondered — why can’t interviewers simply read previous interviews to glean answers to repeated questions?

Caballero giving the first digital poetry performance at Art Genève, hosted by Giga/UNICEF. Photo: Marc Bader, 2025 The biggest downside to being an editor when you launched your career as a writer is ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Filipino and queer, Regie Cabico threw aside the Asian stereotype of the “model minority” in fifth grade and began uncovering identity, social ...

My Lola once improvised a poem for me Jan. 24, 2021. We were talking on the phone, and a colloquial conversation about her life in the Philippines for a piece in my high school newspaper became a two ...

'Ibo's Landing: A Novel' Catherine Burroughs of Edisto Island has penned a novel called "Ibo's Landing," a reference to the 1802 ship mutiny by captured Africans, many of whom then drowned themselves ...