To celebrate National Poetry Month in April, we invited 5 Washington Post photographers to capture nature, and invited 5 ...

Trips with his family to the west of Ireland prompted poetry about nature, but Longley did not avoid writing about the conflict around him. Poems like The Ice Cream Man, Wounds, Kindertotenlieder ...

When Ada Limón became the U.S. Poet Laureate in 2022, she took that moment she used that moment to reflect on poetry's power to connect — or to reconnect — people to the world around them and to their ...