Shannon Lay guested on the lovely Sean Solomon ballad “Car Crash.” Now, the Sub Pop artist is joining forces with Rob Shelton ...

The words of fisher poet Steve Schoonmaker, when put to the sounds of Jim Maloney’s music, create a sense of wonder about the ...

"It would be easy to write a motivational speech asking everyone to come and spend money locally but i think a poem ...

Dunbar also penned one of the most iconic phrases in Black literature – “I know why the caged bird sings” – his poem ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Feeling like the odd one out is something Lakewood High School junior Mel Diemert has dealt with her entire life.

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... where she witnesses addiction, friends dying of AIDS and the sheer work it takes to stay alive. What her work shares with O’Hara’s, here ...

Sabrina Brier – who you know as that in-your-face, never-stops-talking "friend" from TikTok – has a new audiobook out now all about a friend group and how different personalities clash.

Want to know a secret? I’d really like to have more friends. For most of my life, this was never something I struggled with – until I turned 30, moved out of London and back to my home city.

It’s a miracle that a poem written by a Native American woman from Oklahoma moves the heart of a Jewish man in Haines, Alaska. The meal with friends was a gift too, and no, we didn’t really ...

In a world where loneliness is becoming increasingly prevalent, researchers have taken a bold step forward by introducing Melody, a life-sized AI robot designed to combat this growing epidemic.

Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures ... According to an old friend of theirs, George and Mary once had a pair of binoculars that they cut in half, so that they could look ...