Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now....
[nggallery id=34]On a sunny Sunday at the tail-end of National Poetry Month, WNYC visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden where people lounged on the grass in the shade of the 76 flowering cherry trees...
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The Economy in Haiku
What if you could explain economics and finance in the form of a poem? Jess Walter writes about exactly that in “The Financial Lives of the Poets," a novel that centers on a journalist who gives up...
View ArticleLovely Bones: Celebrating Anne Sexton at the Cornelia Street Café
The poet Anne Sexton took her own life in 1974, but had she lived, this year would have marked her 83rd birthday. Reason enough, thought the actor Paul Hecht, to organize an elegant tribute to her at...
View ArticleA People's Poem for the Inaguration: Poets Respond
"Say 'nation.' In the wake of quarrels. Say 'hope.'"That original first line from poet Kwame Dawes, read on the program earlier this week, kicked off our crowd-sourced inaugural poetry project....
View Article#1416: I Dream of Fairlanes
This week on Car Talk, the Auto-Psychiatry booth is open, as Dennis tries to figure out why he dreamed about being offered a 1966 Ford Fairlane. Is a Fairlane memory buried in his past, or to...
View ArticleThis Is Where: Deep in The Woods of East Texas
It's National Poetry Month and our friends at public radio WLRN in Miami, in conjunction with O, Miami poetry festival have launched a poetry project they're calling "This Is Where."We've asked you to...
View Article100 Flowers
When Douglas Hofstadter was 16, he read a poem. Just an innocent little poem, a few short lines, nothing special. But the poem burrowed deep into his brain, and many years later, he set out to...
View ArticleHear Muhammad Ali's Incredible 43-Second Pre-Fight Poem
Right before his 1974 fight with George Foreman, Ali warned that he could "hospitalize a brick" and "make medicine sick" in one of the most exciting 43-second poems you'll ever hear.
View ArticleHappy National Poetry Month! Here's Assignment #2...
April is National Poetry Month! Throughout the month, we're hosting a series of conversations and on-air classes with local poets Tracey K. Smith, Sharon Olds, Vijay Seshadri, and more.This week,...
View ArticleApril Poetry Lessons: Gregory Pardlo
We're celebrating National Poetry Month by bringing four recent Pulitzer Prize winners who teach in the area on the show to give "master classes" and weekly assignments.Have you done your homework for...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: James Brown’s Legacy, A Poetry Assignment, A History of...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.James Brown’s Legacy (First) | A Poetry Assignment (Starts at 13:50) | A History of Big Banks (Starts at 29:40)If you don't...
View ArticleHappy National Poetry Month! Here's Assignment #3...
April is National Poetry Month! Throughout the month, we're hosting a series of conversations and on-air classes with local poets Tracey K. Smith, Gregory Pardlo, Vijay Seshadri, and more.Here's your...
View ArticleA Poetry Lesson with Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds, award-winning poet who teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and author of Stag's Leap: Poems (Knopf, 2012), offers an assignment and insight into writing...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Tubman on the $20, Liang’s Downgraded Conviction,...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Tubman on the $20 (First) | Liang’s Downgraded Conviction (Starts at 32:16) | Sharon Olds’ Poetry (Starts at 50:18)If you don't...
View ArticleHappy National Poetry Month! Here's Assignment #4...
April is National Poetry Month! Throughout the month, we're hosting a series of conversations and on-air classes with local poets Sharon Olds, Gregory Pardlo, Vijay Seshadri, and more.Here's your...
View ArticleApril Poetry Lessons: Tracy K. Smith
Throughout April, we've had four recent Pulitzer Prize winners who teach in the area offer "master classes" and weekly assignments in honor of National Poetry Month.Today, Brooklyn resident Tracy K....
View ArticleThe Prank Your Body Plays On Life
Our friend Max Ritvo passed away August 23, 2016. We learned so much from our conversations with him, and we hope that this interview gives you a sense of the beauty — and humor — he saw in the world....
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The all-American essence of Kansas, Camaros and ‘Jennifer’
A girl walks past a house painted in the colors of the U.S. flag in Moneygall, Ireland. Photo by REUTERS/Cathal McNaughtonThe Jennifer CenturyAmerica! Give to me your 200 years of names borrowed from...
View ArticleA Flurry of Snow Day Poems
This late-winter storm has brought every kind of snowflake today: flurries, big wet chunks, icy rain drops.So we asked listeners to send us all kinds of snowetry — that is, snow day poetry — and tweet...
View ArticleYour Original Poems, Inspired by the Bronx
April is National Poetry Month. To honor the occasion, we have a borough-by-borough poetry challenge. Here's how it works: every week, we'll name a borough and you send us your best, original,...
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