Dec. 19—So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it's hard to chose one as This Season's Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright," made of an ...

From the Economist's Intelligent Life blog: "Ted Hughes didn't just write a lot of poems about animals — about pikes and jaguars and thought-foxes. He thought of poems as animals. 'They have their own ...

a pamphlet about vivisection from a penpal. (Penpals used to be a thing. As did pens.) I was at an Island’s Restaurant in Pasadena and my young friend and I couldn’t get furry and feathered faces out ...

Carolyn Wells (1862–1942) began writing light verse, especially for children, in an era in which many others were doing the same thing. The market was vast, with The New York Sun and nearly all other ...

In the late Worth’s follow-up to Animal Poems (2007), sharply observant and powerfully descriptive verses portray fauna in both wild and domesticated environments. Of a captive Bengal tiger, Worth ...

Sometimes “by Anonymous” means clearly composed by a particular person whom we happen not to know. And sometimes “by Anonymous” means cast up by the tradition, the result of additions, fixes, and ...

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.

Last month, we asked NPR readers what poetry means to them. We received nearly 500 responses, from lifelong poetry fans to those who have only recently come to enjoy the genre. From sparking the ...

So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it’s hard to chose one as This Season’s Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,” made of an animal poem ...