Heeding a poet's call, Andrew Carroll put poetry books in motel rooms, waiting rooms, hospitals, buses, airplanes. . .

People on the Plains led quiet, anonymous lives. Until Spoon River.

Think April is “the cruelest month?” E.E. Cummings will cure your despair.

wholly to be a fool

 while Spring is in the world

For a full year, poet Ross Gay focused on things that delight him. The result: The Book of Delights. You need this now.

For two years, America’s poet laureate reached out to the nation. The nation reached back.

Turning his back to the continent, Robinson Jeffers offered an answer for our own troubled times.

A century ago, in the bleakest of years, other poets despaired.  But one lit her candle -- at both ends.