These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

My personal statement for my college applications was about Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” One of my favorite ...

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

“I am never more pleased than when I can ... wrote in a letter to the poet, not without admiration. Frost’s poetry matched who he was in life: a man who, in Thompson’s words, had “a ...

He is struck on a road just outside Damascus, and his life is readjusted. He then is the recipient of hardship: the Lord will ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

The speaker of that poem is absolutely not me. However, that line is rather ... It means a lot when I am turning my compost pile and I see all of the creatures in there who are helping break ...

His latest book of poems, “Doggerel,” is forthcoming ... knowing that mostly I am a man trying hard not to weep in public. Still, because emotion pained my face, he asked if I was OK.

"There are names, but not nature in words," the poem continues. We grasp for descriptions ... I didn't have the silk robes or soothing piano music to which I am accustomed. For the masseur ...

A former Arctic Monkeys employee is planning to sell off dozens of pieces of memoribilia from his time working for the huge ...