Hers is a “thinking eye”, to borrow Klee’s phrase: the immediacy of the visual is always joined and powered by the ...

Morning Edition wants to hear your memories of home and where you come from — through poetry. Draw on all five senses. Share with us the people or places or smells that define your home.

Like many arts, however — including opera, ballet and abstract painting — poetry requires an education of the senses. We wouldn’t give people jobs as chemists or nuclear physicists without a ...

The poems of Joan Murray, who died in 1942, at the age of twenty-four, have been lost and recovered many times over. First, Murray’s manuscript was pried, from her mother, by W. H. Auden, who ...

“Ode to a Nightingale,” which Keats wrote in 1819, gets at the strange, uncanny effect that art (especially music or poetry) can have on us, deranging our senses and disordering our consciousnes ...