National Poetry Month 2023: Lola Suazo-Lopez
National Poetry Month celebrations continue at WNYC's Morning Edition. With another week comes another poet. Lola Sauzo-Lopez is a 13-year-old middle school student in Brooklyn and a poet with the...
View ArticlePatronage and Love: On Being's Becoming
Pádraig makes an announcement, and we listen to a few lovely moments from the On Being season we've just brought into the world. We're inviting the beautiful humans who gather around On Being to...
View ArticleFull Bio: How Phillis Wheatley Became A Published Poet
In honor of National Poetry Month, our Full Bio selection is the new biography of famous Revolutionary Era poet Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who nevertheless became one of the most celebrated...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month 2023: A.B. Spellman
On the final Friday of National Poetry Month, WNYC's Morning Edition welcomed one last poet to round off a month of celebrations. A.B. Spellman is a poet, music critic and civil servant. He was a...
View ArticleThe Poems of Poetry Month, 2023
April has come to an end, and so has WNYC's Morning Edition Poetry Month challenge for the year.We asked you to send us your poems on the theme of "consequences," whatever that meant to you.And you...
View ArticleBiden is Running; Who Else?; The Mayor's Budget Plan; Faith in Poetry; The...
Coming up on today's show:Earlier this week President Biden announced he's officially running in 2024. Gabriel Debenedetti, national correspondent at New York Magazine and author of The Long Alliance:...
View ArticleEXTRA: Brian and Michael Read Poetry
Brian and Michael Hill read some of the many poems submitted to WNYC's Morning Edition Poetry Challenge ...and set up Friday's "rap battle"!
View ArticleFaith in Poetry
As National Poetry Month winds down and in this month of major religious holidays, Jennifer Michael Hecht, poet, historian, and the author of several books, including Doubt, and her latest, The Wonder...
View ArticleEXTRA: A Rap Battle To Close Out Poetry Month
To conclude National Poetry Month, WNYC Morning Edition host Michael Hill and Brian Lehrer engage in a friendly rhyming competition.
View Article#4610: With Kae Tempest, From London
Kae Tempest is a gifted wordsmith and performer; they've won prestigious poetry awards in England, written a best-selling novel, had several plays produced, and released two previous albums, both of...
View Article'Minor Notes, Volume 1' Celebrates Forgotten Black Poets
A new anthology series publishes the work of Black poets who have been forgotten in history.Minor Notes, Volume 1, includes the work of poets George Moses Horton, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas...
View ArticleJoy Harjo and Native Stories
Before she was the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo’s journey as an artist began at a federal Indian boarding school. She reveals an unexpected perspective about her experience.Joy Harjo is an...
View ArticleKate Baer Reads Ellen Bass
Kate Baer joins Kevin Young to read “The Morning After,” by Ellen Bass, and her own poem “Mixup.” Baer is the New York Times bestselling author of three poetry collections, including, most recently...
View Article'When The Poems Do What They Do' by aja monet (Listening Party)
After releasing her debut single, “Give My Regards To Brooklyn'' in 2022, surrealist blues poet and cultural worker aja monet returns with her first album, When The Poems Do What They Do, which...
View ArticleOcean Vuong on Telling Lies, Building Family and Loving the Knicks
Ocean Vuong is one of the most beloved and acclaimed contemporary writers – his 2016 award-winning first poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was published before he finished his MFA. But his...
View ArticlePaul Tran Reads “The Three Graces”
This week’s issue of The New Yorker features a new poem, “The Three Graces,” by Paul Tran, a young writer whose debut collection was named one of the best books of 2022. Tran’s poetry explores their...
View ArticleAt an Embattled Moment, the New York Times’ Publisher Makes a Stand
Over the past several years, as more democratic institutions and norms have come under attack, many journalists have raised the question of whether it is ethical to adhere to journalism’s traditional...
View ArticleThe New York Times’ Publisher on the Future of Journalism, and the Poet Paul...
Over the past several years, as more democratic institutions and norms have come under attack, many journalists have raised the question of whether it is ethical to adhere to journalism’s traditional...
View ArticleDavid Baker Reads Stanley Plumly
David Baker joins Kevin Young to read “In Passing,” by Stanley Plumly, and his own poem “Six Notes.” Baker has received honors and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the...
View ArticleA. G. Sulzberger on Bias and Objectivity at The New York Times
For the big show this weekend OTM correspondent Micah Loewinger is working on a piece about the extraordinary transformation of the New York Times from a struggling newspaper into a digital behemoth....
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