Poet Anne Carson discusses the life and work of three women featured in her recent libretto Decreation—the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho; Marguerite Porete, the 13th cen

Longtime friends Marie Howe and Michael Klein discuss the role of memory in poetry and memoir, and the intersections of the two forms in their writing.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney initiates an annual program on the art of translation.

In the fertile margins where genres not only intersect but are re-imagined, authors of poetic fictions expand the definitions of poetry, biography and fiction.

In the words of Carol Conroy, the memorization of a poem invokes "all the myriad acts of attention that create a poem.