In a poem midway through Mark Jarman’s collection The Heronry, a student on a trip abroad (to France?) makes trouble for herself. She loses her passport, skips class, gets drunk, and gets arrested.

University of Dayton English professor emeritus Herbert Martin talks about his life and his new poetry collection The Shape of Regret. English professor emeritus Herbert Martin has “good poems to sell ...

A good poem can reveal a lot about its creator — and together, a collection of good poems can reveal a lot about all of us — as a neighborhood, and as a creative community. We received a lot of good ...

Recently I was driving the Interstate early on a Saturday night, heading to the Big City for a Big Night with my baby. NPR news had finished, and, in my part of the world anyway, just as night follows ...

One of the few hazards of being an English professor is that when a friend or relative gets married, they might invite you to read a love poem at the wedding. It’s an honor to be asked, of course, but ...

Poetry is a regular feature on Garrison Keillor's NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, but for the last five years, it has formed the core of The Writer's Almanac, a daily, five-minute, 7 a.m.