“I make my life with the things I can name,” Ruth Lepson wrote in her 2016 book ask anyone. It is a simply worded statement that dredges up difficult questions — for instance, what are the things that ...

NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground. NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Last week, a message from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón blasted beyond Earth’s atmosphere, where it will ...

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has revealed her latest poem, which will be featured aboard a NASA spacecraft that will travel billions of miles in space. The poem, titled “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem ...

As we continue the Sun’s week-long festival, celebrating Rhina Espaillat’s poetry in this year of her ninetieth birthday, we shift gears today from the sonnet to a form that loosens its hold on rhyme ...

April is National Poetry Month, and while poems about love and loss abound, where are the cool poems about science? Where are the sonnets on space ships and smilodons? Science poetry is a little ...

In addition to being National Humor Month, National Pecan Month, and Stress Awareness Month, April has been designated as National Poetry Month. And now that the dust from all of the raging monthlong ...

She may be up in space orbiting our blue home, but that didn't stop Samantha Cristoforetti from reciting a lovely poem. Cristoforetti is a European Space Agency astronaut currently aboard the ...

But growing up, the 26-year-old'sview of poetry was heavily influenced by those two men, "both of whom were writers who have experiences that I didn't identify with as a working-class Salvadoran girl ...