Apr 30th, 2008 · In honor of National Poetry Month, Farai Chideya talks with Al Young, California's Poet Laureate, about the art and joys of poetry. His latest book, Something About the Blues, includes a CD of Young reading his works, often with jazz accompaniment.
Apr 29th, 2008 · Music critic Lloyd Schwartz first met poet Elizabeth Bishop when she moved to Cambridge in the early 1970s after living in Brazil for nearly 20 years. Now Schwartz has co-edited a new collection of work by the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
Aug 5th, 2007 · Charles Simic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was just named the Library of Congress's 15th Poet Laureate. Simic talks with Lynn Neary.