June 21 is officially the first day of summer, also known as the Summer Solstice. Today holds symbolic importance, as it marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the point ...

Despite the cold weather in the Northeast, summer is just around the corner, and as the sunny days have finally begun to roll in, I've used the sunshine as an opportunity to read great poetry about ...

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 Paul ...

Hey, we're not quite done with summer, which means we're not quite done with talking with poets on this program about what summer means to them. Tishani Doshi wrote a poem called "Visiting My Parents ...

At the end of the summer, you wrote bad poetry. Inexplicable, s—ty, broken-down poetry that couldn’t even be called poetry. It was humiliating. You wrote a Finsta caption that you never published, the ...

Assiduous readers of our Poem of the Day feature will, by now, have made more than a passing acquaintance with the poems of Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). In a brief career, cut even shorter by her ...

About the poems of Li Po (701–762), there’s really not much new to say. Poetry in Chinese can be difficult for Westerners to appreciate, as the characters in which it is written have echoes and ...