Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops ... So, too, the human voice of the poem begins lost — ready to worship but bereft of a God. In the “blue blue night” of despair ...

MK Asante reads a poem composed for Morning Edition titled, "In Summer." The Baltimore-based writer says it is in tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet. This next poem is by ...

When the Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora was nine years old, he travelled alone to the United States, crossing the border on foot ... everything turned into poems.” These poems came to ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.

This month, MORNING EDITION has been taking a break from the heat with poetry. Today we're going to hear about Chris McCabe. For him, summer is a time to reconnect with nature. Out on a walk with ...

perhaps it’s time for another from his children’s classic — this one titled “Bed in Summer.” We previously called “A Child’s Garden of Verses” the most widely read and influential volume of children’s ...

This week, poet and host Daljit Nagra selects a highlight to celebrate the longest day: Four Seasons - A collection of poems for the Summer Solstice. A compilation programme of poems that featured ...

So we’re stuck with translations that at least have a whiff of the spare particularities of the Chinese verse — translations such as today’s Poem of the Day, “In the Mountains on a Summer Day,” ...