I'm joined now by MORNING EDITION's poet in residence, Kwame Alexander. Hey, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hey, Rachel. Rachel Martin, I got a question for you. MARTIN: OK. ALEXANDER: What did the ...

Birthdays are fantastic occasions, but who says you can’t celebrate friendship any day? Whether it’s with a warm friendship quote or a thoughtful gift (like a book about friendship), there are so many ...

“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken to everything in the universe.” – John Muir I bought a new flashlight for ...

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset, England, on June 2, 1840. A fiction writer as well as a poet, he published eight collections of poetry, including "Poems of the Past and the Present" (Harper & Bros., ...

William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His collections of poetry include "The Wanderings of Oisin" (1889) and "In the Seven Woods" (1903). Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.