PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Could a local 13-year-old girl be the next Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath or Maya Angelou? Only time will tell, but for now, she can call herself a published author. Eighth-grader ...

A British woman jailed in Iran for almost a year has spoken of the pain of separation from her family in a poignant Christmas ...

Through the challenges of war and distance, a Ukrainian student channels her feelings into poetry written in English. Linda, a high school tutor, shares this powerful poem and the student’s own ...

For poet Ada Limón, evidence of poetry is everywhere. It connects big ideas — like fear, isolation, even death — with little details — like field sparrows, a box of matches, or "the body moving / ...

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral in 2016. She talks with NPR's Miles Parks about her work and her divorce, both subjects of her new memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful." In 2016, a ...

A new collection of poems by Iris Murdoch, Poems From An Attic, has also been published after those clearing her attic found ...

“Libre” was recently selected as the book for One Book One New Orleans (OBONO) for 2026.

The Belfast poet cuts her words to fit, or suit, though her poems can also settle into the straightforwardness of a realist ...

Amanda Gorman read her poem, "The Hill We Climb," at the Biden-Harris ceremony. Amanda Gorman said she feels "amazing" after making history Wednesday as the youngest poet in recent history to perform ...

Amanda Gorman paid homage to many American greats in her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb." Gorman references the work of Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes, and more. The 22-year ...

Andrew Dominik’s Blonde imagines that, after the premiere of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, an emotional and eager Marilyn Monroe (played by Ana de Armas) rushed to a hotel suite, expecting to meet her ...