Bill Moyers’ first interview with Maya Angelou was filmed in 1973 in her cottage in Berkeley, California. At the time, Angelou, 45, was already an accomplished singer, dancer, poet, author, actress, editor, songwriter and playwright. As Bill noted in his introduction, this “gifted and very human woman” had “touched more bases than Henry Aaron. Yet, all these categories failed to do justice to the scope of her life.”

Wisława Szymborska is widely known as an exceptional poet, yet her personal history yields much more than exquisite poetry. This series of little-known eccentricities reveals a multifaceted mind, a generous heart and a delightful sense of humor.

When Kate Clanchy began teaching the children of refugees, she sought out those silenced by trauma and loss. Their weekly sessions released a torrent of untold stories.

A Poem for Each of Stendhal’s Phases of Romance

David Jones’s first world war poem was hailed by TS Eliot as a work of genius. So why has its author been largely forgotten? By Owen Sheers.

Can a computer write a sonnet that's indistinguishable from what a person can produce? A contest at Dartmouth attempted to find out. With our online quiz, you too can give it a try.

“Reduced to its barest elements, modernity is the substitution of science for theology, history for philosophy, and the self for the soul. Eliot had little patience with the pretensions of science, but even he was not fully able to escape the other two....” By Joseph Bottum.

Who are the most complex rhymers in rap?

Gil Scott-Heron

By Sherman Alexie. (Apr. 15)

Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines

‘He is to poetry what Banksy is to art’. Brian Bilston is bringing poetry to the masses, taking social media by storm with his topical, witty, thoughtful and accessible poems. By Sarah Gilmartin.

Unless you are a scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth century literature you have probably never heard of John Taylor the Water Poet. Or for that matter Robert Greene, the bohemian university wit, or Richard Barnfield, the sodomitical sonneteer... By Edward Simon.

Poet and Irish expatriate Frank Delaney has enjoyed success as a BBC host, Man Booker Prize judge and author of the best-selling novel, Ireland. To honor St. Patrick's Day, Delaney shares with Weekend Edition his original poem, Drowning the Shamrock.

Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early LGBT activist.

She was less like a recluse, more like a bomb going off.

Nicholas Roe reviews “Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake” by Leo Damrosch.

Praised by the likes of Philip Larkin, Tonks was a writer to be reckoned with. Why did she vanish? By Ruth Graham.

Donne’s Contagious London. By Alison Bumke.

The enduring mystery of Keats’s last words. By Michelle Stacey.