POETRY AT MOTEL 6

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

HEARTS IN GRANITE

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

THE PUDDLE-WONDERFUL POET OF SPRING

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

wholly to be a fool

while Spring is in the world

ROSS GAY, AMBASSADOR OF DELIGHT

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

TRACY K. SMITH -- DOWN ROADS NOT TAKEN

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

ROBINSON JEFFERS AND "THE ANSWER"

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

FLAME

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