WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Among the highlights was poet Allen Ginsberg, who delivered his poem “Earth Pollution,” marking the start of a long-standing connection between poetry ...

Kipling was an Aesthete, and it shows up from time to time in his short stories, his interests in art, and his poetry. In the alexandrines of “When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted,” a poem printed as ...

four?)—achieved flight, that swift and serene magnificence, before the earth remembered who we were and brought us down. Rita Dove’s 2004 poem “American Smooth” is, for good reason ...

This is what I've learned. KELLY: I want to ask about the book because you are putting the poem out here on Earth in the form of a children's book. It is illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner ...