Kwame Dawes reads "The Weaver Bird" by Kofi Awoonor…
PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown, right, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, center right, launch the series “Where Poetry Lives.” Their first stop: Brooklyn. Photo by Anne Davenport/NewsHour “A short walk in the park, a sax, a lot of poetry:…
Poet Seamus Heaney, 74, Dug the 'Wideness of Language' With His Pen…
Liao Yiwu Howls Against the Chinese Government, Offers Memories of Prison…
Liao Yiwu was in his early 30s when he was arrested for writing and performing a poem about the brutality of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. A new memoir about his time in prison called "For a Song and…
Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict…
The Library of Congress reappointed U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to a second term on Monday. Though she is not the first in her position to receive the honor of an extended post, the announcement does have special meaning for…
Poet Gerald Stern Looks Back on a Career Spent Reading and Writing…
Gretel Ehrlich reads a poem from "Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami."…
A Writer's Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami, Two Years Later…
