In honor of Mother’s Day, poet Richard Blanco joined Boston Public Radio for another edition of The Village Voice — making sense of the world through poetry. Through these poems, Blanco said he hopes ...

“I like to think you gave us extraordinary power,” Lucille Clifton writes in a poem dedicated to her great-grandmother. “You are the arrow that pierced our plain skin and made us fancy women.” How ...

Dorothea Lasky’s Thunderbird arrived at my apartment several days after I ordered it, and a couple days after I expected it. The book, her latest book of poetry, published by Wave Books in 2012, is ...

August is almost over, and with that comes the beginning of a new school year and the bittersweet end of summer. Noting the time of year, poet Richard Blanco said that this time of year is a time to ...

ORINDA — Long before she thought about becoming a neurologist, Dawn McGuire had poetry in her life. She was able to blend her passion for science and art, enabling her to make a connection with others ...

In this sound portrait, we meet poet Zachary Caballero. He describes poetry as the art of paying attention and talks about how poems can help us feel less alone, as well as why he loves to cook. He ...

Two local young women artists are thrilled that poems they wrote with guidance from mentors at the Deep Center creative nonprofit organization are being turned into songs with the help of folks from ...