NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - When was the last time a subway poster got you choked up? For WCBS 880's Jane Tillman Irving, it was recently, when she saw the poem "Heaven" by Patrick Phillips. "Heaven" is ...

December, this month of yearly summings-up, is a good time to reflect on the human impulse to — well, to sum things up. Every day this December, someone somewhere will feel compelled to publish a ...

"My heart overflows with noble words; To the King I must speak the song I have made; My tongue as nimble as the pen of a scribe..." These words from the Book of Psalms are once again epitomized by ...

This is a true account beginning now. Here’s a birch basket, tens of feathers, none of which will ever belong again. This is like that, only more so. Once I was a little girl who tried to write it.

At a reading I attended in the Smith College science lecture hall a few years ago, Charles Bernstein, famous as a poet and anti-poet, pointed to the giant poster on the wall behind him and said, “I ...

Poetry Parnassus - a part of the London Cultural Olympics - is well underway. Nearly 200 poets representing every Olympic nation have gathered in London in the biggest poetry event ever staged in the ...

There’s a growing, worrying tendency in poetry feature writing to begin an article about an author with a list of accolades, qualifications, prize nominations, and publishing credentials. More often ...

Growing up in Co Sligo, we were particularly exposed to all things Yeats. I loved, learned and recited many of his poems in competition at the annual Sligo Easter feiseanna. I even won a few medals ...