Professor releases newest collection of poems on grief and discovery, connection, and the strange time travel that is life.

Byas’ poetry collection ... side of a community — is that problematic? That is, the book club wondered, what will Byas’ family think of the collection? Byas said she made sure everyone ...

When Shel Silverstein wrote the poem "Years From Now," he seemed to know that one day he'd be gone but that his playful words and images would still be making children happy. "I cannot see your ...

And to celebrate this resonant concept comes a beautifully created anniversary book, Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology, in which the exchange’s founder ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) COOPER: It's a family ... poem, particularly in this book, the line at the end of the book, people carol, feast, give thanks and dearly love their friends ...

It was more unusual for me to have friends on the block who had dentists for dads.” Family ... The book began as “creative nonfiction,” Battisti says. She also interspersed poems that ...

deliciously outrageous poems are filled with wacky cartoon characters, nimble puns and clever spoofs. Three blue ghosts perform a ``phantomine''; ``in the sandbox, making trouble'' are ``seven ...

By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program ... for late-night conversations between old friends or new lovers after the third round.

She is the editor, most recently, of the anthology “Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall.” Books of lyric poems ... his love for his friends and for his partner, Eli; his ...

What makes a Christmas poem? It could ... as an illustrated book for young readers, can bring to mind such memories. In it, two children fall in love with their family’s “little silent ...

Suddenly I’m wishing to be back home in Virginia where we called them bad winds and the whole family gathered in ... and saw that I was holding a book of love poems from Elizabeth Barrett ...