poetry

Weekly Poem: From 'Fugue'

By Tom LeGro

Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."…

Weekly Poem: 'The Winter's Wife'

By Tom LeGro

Jennifer Chang is the author of "The History of Anonymity" (Georgia, 2008). A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian…

In Haiti, Writer Kwame Dawes Tells of Quake Aftermath Through Poetry

Writer Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people's experiences after the earthquake. Jeffrey Brown's conversation with Dawes continues a series of reports in partnership with USA Today and the…

Weekly Poem: 'Boy in Blue'

By Tom LeGro

Recently, Kwame Dawes teamed up with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to examine the earthquake in Haiti through poetry. Look for a report on the NewsHour about that project in the coming days.

Boise Poet Karena Youtz on 'Dead Art' of Poetry (Hint: It's Not Dead)

By Margaret Myers

Poet Karena Youtz shares her most recent collection of verses,"The Shape is Space," in the latest in a NewsHour series profiling poets around the world.

Karena Youtz Reads 'Disrupted Motion' and 'Public Fruit'

By newshourpoetry

Karena Youtz is a poet who lives and writes in Boise, Idaho. She also writes lyrics for her husband Doug Martsch, lead singer for the Boise-based indie rock band Built to Spill.

Karena Youtz

By newshourpoetry

Poet Karena Youtz reads some of her poems.

Weekly Poem: 'Burning the Christmas Greens'

By Tom LeGro

Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.

Weekly Poem: 'The New Intelligence'

By Tom LeGro

Timothy Donnelly is the author of "Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit" and "The Cloud Corporation," is a poetry editor for "Boston Review" and a full-time faculty member of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the…