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.

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the ...

Free-verse descendants of Ogden Nash and Calvin Trillin, his poems often turn on the withering ... he’s selflessly struggling to open Bud’s eyes to the “miracle that is existence.” ...

Three decades after it was first published, the creative self-help book is changing the lives of everyone from famous rappers ...

The Song of Solomon is different from any other book in the Bible. Some people are surprised at its content. It seems like letters two lovers wrote one another where the male and female describe the ...

These records serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, ...

From murals and music to documentaries and writing, the Baltimore arts community passionately expressed a city’s range of ...

The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with ...

Poetry is known for its brevity. And tell me, where are the poetic politicians like John F. Kennedy, who said, “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations." ...

Five writers offer a collection of poetry to welcome spring and, with it, light and hope during uncertain times.

A former leading IRA man says he has discovered a new way of dealing with the horrors of the past — by writing “conflict ...

I’ve seen this power in action while teaching the poem “Identity” by Julio Noboa Polanco, whose final verse declares, “I’d rather smell of musty, green stench / than of sweet, fragrant lilac. / If I ...