Marianne Faithfull and Courtney Love are two of rock music’s great survivors. Both have weathered addiction, rough handling from the media and the music industry and the challenge of establishing ...

From the sonnets of William Shakespeare to the writings of Walt Whitman and the rejuvenating words of Amanda Gorman, poetry is indelibly writ into the fabric of not only popular culture, but the ...

Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and author Kwame Alexander will find a poem that ...

“To say it was anyone’s fault / would be to not understand / the headwind that every love faces.” Such is a typical line drawn from award-winning poet Andrea Gibson’s newest collection, “You Better Be ...

Sometimes the thing that can be said in a thousand words is better said in 10 — as a poetry lover, that’s how I often feel, and I’m betting most (or all) of the feminist poets featured on the list ...

They are made of truth,” says Nero Kane of the nine songs on his fourth album, For the Love, the Death and the Poetry ...

One of the best sounds in the world is Tom Hiddleston's voice. I'm convinced he could quit acting and just read audio books for the rest of his life and he'd probably make millions of dollars. But, ...

April is National Poetry Month! Who else besides me is excited and wants to try talking in haiku all month long? No one? Hmm, okay. One of my favorite definitions of the word “poetic” comes from Urban ...

There's a certain kind of therapeutic vibe that awaits you at Poetry by Love & Cheesecake. It is the place to head to for a ...