Open-Door Playhouse continues to present short plays in podcast form. The Playhouse is presenting a new play, After the Funeral , starting July 30, 2025 online at ...

Utterly poetic. The poetry was a gift that he loved to give others. I remember when he was launching The Days of Surprise in 2015, there was an event at the Pavilion in Dún Laoghaire.

Poetry has always assembled and disassembled—and reassembled—in all kinds of magical and necessary ways. — Daniel Halpern and Walt Hunter 25 To 2040 By Jorie Graham “Are we / extinct yet.

Bird and Bridgers recorded the song this fall, and the interpretation pairs Dickinson’s verses with soft guitar, light whistling, and drum patter, as well as strings that can feel rich and grand one ...

Inspirational poems that’ll raise your spirits Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry ...

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in ...

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.

The first six poems in Then Come Back are love poems for Matilde Urrutia, Neruda’s third wife. While he and Matilde appear as entwined lovers and creative collaborators throughout his verses, the ...

Five collections our columnist loved this year. By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert is the author of six collections of poetry, essays and criticism, most recently “Normal Distance.” Her On Poetry ...

The Carter Center has shared a heartfelt poem written in 1995 by former President Jimmy Carter, 99, to his beloved wife Rosalynn, 96, ahead of her funeral in Plains, Georgia.

Funeral poems possess the remarkable ability to articulate the complex web of emotions we feel when we lose someone dear to us. They provide a touch of comfort, helping us say our goodbyes in a ...