A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with ...

I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.

When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

Some poetry of this kind is written today, but not much—although Maya Angelou’s lines “You may trod me in the very dust / But still, like dust, I’ll rise” reverberate.

Poems don’t have to be perfect, but this one pretty much is. I mean that less as praise — though it is a long-time favorite — than as a technical description.

With war looming, W.H. Auden stood in a museum and was inspired to write. The resulting poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” is one of the most famous ever written about art.

How a poem transformed Christmas into the festive holiday it is today. The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon about her poem engraved on NASA's spaceship headed 1.8 billion miles to the Jupiter moon of Europa.

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

Ethan Coen premieres 'A Poem Is a Play' at the Mark Taper Forum, a quintet of one-acts directed by longtime stage collaborator Neil Pepe and deploying the writer's characteristic wit and offbeat ...