She was in bed and wore a smile; "So glad you stopped on by. The Dr. said – 'no date or time' – but very soon you'll die!'" They visited, recalling times when they'd had lots of fun. 'We're born to ...

A few years after her younger brother John died from AIDS-related complications in 1989, poet Marie Howe wrote him a poem in the form of a letter. Called "What the Living Do," the poem is an ...

With her second collection, 'Girls That Never Die,' poet Safia Elhillo dives headlong into cultural taboos and feels poised for a breakthrough.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Libyan writer Khaled Mattawa. He translated a poem by Mustafa al-Trabelsi, who wrote about the flood risks in Libya before he died in them.

Miguel St. Thomas wrote his wife a poem for their upcoming 10-year wedding anniversary before she was killed in a fatal fire that tore through their Washington Heights apartment building on Friday.

Author Andrea Gibson, best known for their spoken word poetry and LGBTQ activism, died after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer.