I was trying to get down to the root where consciousness springs up under pressure from conflict and pain and power.” ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died, and everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: ...

Memorizing a poem is like taking a work of art that you love and letting it live and bloom inside of you. By Melissa Kirsch The first poem I memorized was “Pinkle Purr” by A.A. Milne. I was around ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...