Ever since then, the 23-year-old youth poet laureate has gone from strength to strength. For example, in 2021 alone, her collection of poems "Call Us What We Carry" was a New York Times Bestseller ...

Good poetry can help us hold two opposing ideas in our minds at once. For instance: A new year is a blank page, waiting for us to write on it. It is a chance to begin all over again. A new ...

Amanda Gorman, who famously recited a moving poem at the 2021 presidential inauguration, has just released a new work to mark the ringing in of the new year. On Wednesday, Instagram debuted Gorman ...

She said her poem “Shore” is about a walk she took years ago along the New Hampshire coastline where she lives. It begins: Before God made the shore he divined a woman walking there ...

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

people have been reading and performing Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" to celebrate the winter solstice. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) COOPER: (Reading) And when the new year's ...

Emperor Naruhito composed a poem about the aspirations of children he has met around Japan for the annual New Year Poetry Reading at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 22. The event’s theme th ...