NPR

Author and illustrator talk about making "Shortest Day" poem into a children's book

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 Weekend ...
NBC Washington

April is National Poetry Month. Here's how you can celebrate in and around DC

With spring well underway, the weather warming and the Earth coming back to life, is it any wonder that April is designated National Poetry Month in the United States? The literary celebration was ...
WBUR

Maggie Smith: Life, like a poem, is a series of choices

Today I’m here with the tiniest pep talk, in case you need one. This one’s as much about saying no as it is about saying yes. In my memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful," I wrote, “Life, like a ...
NPR

Wendell Berry veers from gratitude to yearning in 'Another Day'

Wendell Berry’s imagined residents of Port William, Kentucky, are nearly as familiar to his most devoted readers as their own extended family members. In a series of novels and dozens of short stories ...
The New York Times

Day 4: This poem is about staying up all night. Use it to greet the day.

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 ...
The New York Times

Day 2: How rhythm and rhyme make a poem memorable.

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 ...