If you ask Samina Ali about the work that went into her new memoir, she might liken herself to a peckish ocean predator. “You know how they say a shark circles its prey? That’s what it was like,” she ...

National Poetry Month, observed each April since 1996, mirrors the labors of poets themselves. Poets bend close to the earth, and to its people, noticing the hurts and homemade medicines, beautiful ...