Trying to beat the heat? I suggest slipping away into one of the following 15 poems about hot summer days to get you through the next heat wave. These odes to summer, in all of its misery and grandeur ...

MK Asante reads a poem composed for Morning Edition titled, "In Summer." The Baltimore-based writer says it is in tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet. This next poem is by Paul ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Last year, as ...

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), whose “Spring and All” appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on May 2, famously defined a poem as “a small (or large) machine made of words.” It’s a strange ...

Technically, summer doesn't end until September 22 (a Friday this year), but TBH the second half of August always kind of feels like things are winding down (shakes a fist at school for hardwiring the ...

It is far too ironic that on the day we celebrate independence from our former English liege, A large part of Newport will be like a city under martial siege, With police on every corner though not in ...

Four Lyon College students saw their work in print this summer as published translators, contributing English-language versions of more than 40 poems in “Women Poets of Panama,” a new bilingual ...

All this summer on MORNING EDITION, we've been asking poets to read work that evokes this season. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This next poem is by Paul Laurence Dunbar. He was an African-American poet who ...