NPR's Scott Simon asks poet Edward Hirsch about his new memoir, written in poem-like snippets. It is called "My Childhood in Pieces." One of America's great poets has written a memoir that's haunting, ...

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer. By Jeff Gordinier Jeff Gordinier recently won the James Beard Foundation’s M.F.K.

As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry — at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I’ve titled my annual roundup — one ...

In our fiercely tribal and divisive culture, when consensus is illusory and we can’t seem to agree on even the most fundamental facts, the notion of shared history as a societal precept has left the ...

An observational poet who focuses on imagery from nature, he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts for more than 20 years. By Elizabeth A. Harris Arthur Sze was a freshman at the ...

The American poet James Schuyler composed his first significant poem during a nine-week stay at the Payne Whitney Westchester psychiatric clinic, in White Plains, New York, in late 1951. That fall, ...