These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

I’ve come to realize that when we lose the ability to communicate fully in words, the other ways we connect—through actions, ...

The poems, too, are deceptive ... incorporate “the very irregular accent and measure” of human speech. “I am never more pleased than when I can get these into strained relation,” he ...

“Kanye West is not Picasso / I am Picasso / Kanye West is not Edison / I am Edison / I am Tesla / Jay-Z is not the Dylan of anything / I am the Dylan of anything / I am the Kanye West of Kanye West,” ...

DEAR ABBY: While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the ...

But even when I am writing something that is extremely personal or a pure act of imagination, all of these other concerns are going to be influencing that work one way or another. Those poems will ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds." ...

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