All this summer on MORNING EDITION, we've been asking poets to read work that evokes this season. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This next poem is by Paul Laurence Dunbar. He was an African-American poet who ...

Hey, we're not quite done with summer, which means we're not quite done with talking with poets on this program about what summer means to them. Tishani Doshi wrote a poem called "Visiting My Parents ...

Even with the new school year starting, we still have a few more summer weeks ahead of us. I thought I’d share some poems. This first one hit me with immediacy as we are in the throws of fly season.

The American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), whose June 27 birthday we celebrate today, was the first African American poet to attain an international reputation, and he stood as posthumous ...

If you are willing to witness the ways in which your body was hurt, continue to 1. If you are not willing to witness the ways in which your body was hurt, skip to 2. There is no archive here. The ...

In the summer of 1957, Bob Dylan wrote a poem called "Little Buddy" that was published in the Herzl Camp newspaper. For years, a copy of the poem has been wrapped in plastic and hidden within the ...

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), whose “Spring and All” appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on May 2, famously defined a poem as “a small (or large) machine made of words.” It’s a strange ...