NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...

It probably doesn’t take much to make your girlfriend’s day—flowers, her favorite takeout, a movie night, and sometimes just a good hug can all go a long way. But if their love language is words of ...

Mara Brock Akil's adaptation of the 1975 YA novel follows a pair of Los Angeles teenagers, played by Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr., as they fall in love.

It seemed like a usual nursing home with usual patients However in that dull space somewhere there was a man who was beautifully scripting about his life during his last days in a form of hearttouchin ...

The finals of the Poetry Out Loud high school poetry competition take place in Washington, D.C., this week. NPR asked some of this year's competitors about how to master a poem.

In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is ...

A conversation with the anonymous creator of the popular account about their new collection of poems.

If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...

Two stars of the popular Netflix reality dating show Love on the Spectrum said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial comments ...

Author Joseph Bruchac shares a poem about a bumblebee and how taking the time to listen to the natural world led him to it.

Colleen Brady directed the short film, “Amish Country Queer,” which explores LGBTQ+ nightlife within Pennsylvania’s Amish ...

“Is it possible to feel settled somewhere,” I wrote, “when part of who you are depends on constantly ... He believes his work, much of which is intimate poetry, comes alive in his native ...