This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics.

Walter Bargen, Missouri's first poet laureate, offers advice for people willing to embrace the world and be surprised.

Poetry by Carrie Fountain: “It’s strange even now to understand that / you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts / were given to you and that you received them.” ...