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Jeffrey Brown talks to the poet about his work and time in prison, recounted in his new memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs.

Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet, traveled to Afghanistan to learn more about daily life there through the modern exchange of poetry.

2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Winner

Poetry of the Women of Afghanistan.

Poet Sharon Olds reads from her new book, Stag's Leap.

Jeffrey Brown sat down with UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and US Poet Laureate Philip Levine to reflect on their public roles as private poets.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, Tony Hoagland reads "Romantic Moment," a poem about a man and woman watching a nature documentary on a date.

In Money Shot, poet Armantrout reacts to financial crisis in verse.

In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney—winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995—is that rare bird: a world-famous poet.

Ernesto Cardenal is known as one of Latin America's greatest living poets.