Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the soul. This week, let’s all learn one together! Meet your poem Rhythm and rhyme Made in N.Y.C. Greet the day Keep your poem By A.O. Scott and Aliza ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on ...

Rejection is a chance for growth and learning. While rejection is a chance for growth and learning, the initial response of apprehension tends to overshadow a potential lesson well-learned ...

Zeliff had the same musing about a few weeks of skiing incredible and technical terrain in the Norwegian Alps and published a poem to her Instagram about it along with videos from the trip. Never one ...

How did this book come about? I was lying face down in bed in Iowa City in 2011 and thinking I’m going to write a book called Rejection.I’d been looking for books to read about rejection and I ...