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WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn and Susan Phillips explore the beauty of nature through poetry, featuring iconic poets like Amanda Gorman, Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg.
From haibun to haiku, ghazals to concrete poems, our poets have been experimenting with form with a serious engagement.
Mr. Campbell’s criticism was authoritative in evaluation yet casual in expression. Or seemingly so: His prose was unfailingly ...
The poet and author discusses the aesthetics of his writing, his relationship to Irishness, and his liberating debut novel, ...
Books can take readers to new places through vivid detail, allowing them to “see” things that might not even exist. At the ...
The poem is told from the perspective of a father who, after his family goes ... To the Christmas holly we’ll sing. With its beautiful green leaves and bright red berries that peek out from ...
Fragrance, for me, has to be the most ephemeral of luxuries, with scent as fleeting as a cloud yet its impact as eternal as ...
During April, 17-year-old Daniel Umemezie was selected as the Iowa Student Poet Ambassador and as the Cedar Valley Youth Poet Laureate.
The architect behind London’s Shard, New York’s Whitney Museum, and Paris’s Centre Pompidou discusses the beauty of ...