It's the final week of May. On this week's episode of Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza shares one of his own poems, titled: "Red Dye No. 40." ...

It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku region to follow the ste･･･ ...

Growing up in the foster care system, Pacia Anderson did not understand herself or feel understood by those entrusted with ...

We caught up with Maya Hawke to discuss her off-Broadway debut in Signature Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, what it has been like tapping back into her theater roots, and what makes ...

Some of the decline can be explained by a delay in having children or a decrease in the number of children, rather than ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stark comments about children with autism have splintered a community of ...

The fence had been built in a shadowbox style, and the gaps between the boards gave reaching vines room for twisting. Their ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

There’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

Ballard, who wrote “on and off most of his adult life,” only turned to poetry at age 66. That being a mortality-aware time of ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks poet Edward Hirsch about his new memoir, written in poem-like snippets. It is called "My Childhood in Pieces." ...

But it still seems increasingly likely that millennials will have the highest rate of childlessness of any generational ...