What is it about life’s big and little moments that calls for a poem? At weddings. At funerals. On greeting cards. In church. On the radio. At moments of great happiness or deep sadness. At beginnings ...

Read by Tom Waits, written by Charles Bukowski This reading by Tom Waits captures the essence of Bukowski’s The Laughing ...

Author Canisia Lubrin says she learned every best part of herself from her mother, Anne. “My mother was the kind of person ...

In her new collection of poems, The Soundtrack of My Life – Side B, Srividya Sivakumar is fearless in her expression of ...

“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its craft — and its wildness. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems don’t have ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Sylvia M. Vardell, who lives in Dallas, Texas. When asked how she became ...

After the death of Ahmaud Arbery, Morning Edition asked for your reactions to the killing in the shape of a poem. The 25-year-old black man was shot and killed by two white men while he was out for a ...

A native truth: the present is as beautiful as it is brutal,” Billy-Ray Belcourt writes in the first poem in his collection ...

The haunting new show from Vince Gilligan, who created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is set in Gilligan's now-signature location, Albuquerque.

If you're wondering what inspired Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl album, she explains it all in the prologue poem. Now, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl is officially out and fans are ...