Local She was homeless, sleeping outside a condemned house, 6 months ago. Now, she’s a published author.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver often writes about the natural world — the animals she sees and the woods she walks in. Her new book, A Thousand Mornings, collects her morning ...

For all the millions of lives “Rainbow Bridge” has touched, though, the author of the poem has remained unknown—until now. She is Edna Clyne-Rekhy, an 82-year-old Scottish artist and animal ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Some authors count their success by the number of books sold or money made, but one Greenfield author counts success by the number of readers her books help to heal.

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 ...

This poem in translation is surreal in its depiction of grief. It has a recurring image of a bird that’s a figure for death and grief after the loss of the poet’s father. Don Mee Choi’s ...

When This Brilliant Author Died, She Left Behind a Legacy of Grief, Haunting Poetry and Surprising Resilience Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale Law School and former lawyer who switched careers to become a children ...

When she is not going viral, Laura is an author and mother of five who writes about parenting, grief and the sacramentality of everyday life.

Hanlon says “If she said, ‘The poem is perfect,’ and other people were suggesting something else than Ursula was, I would just think, ‘ok, the poem is perfect.’” ...

Mary Gaitskill, Author of 'Gone Girl' Takedown, Says She's No Genre Snob When a literary author critiques a mass market success, it's easy to assume it's a case of a highbrow author looking down ...

Waukesha author Kathie Giorgio was sexually assaulted when she was 13 years old. In her 30s, she began writing poetry about it. "I don't know if I could sit down and write a sustained account of ...