A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodsky and the Mak...

In Night Breaks in the Garret: Poems and Peregrinations (Finishing Line Press, 2026), Yermiyahu Ahron Taub provides a meditation not so much on the search for home, but on the coming to terms with what is, here and now, home. The poet engages the distant past and the pressing pre ...  Show more

In this NBN interview, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Adriana Oniță about her poetry collection, Descântec For My Split Tongue (Palimpsest Press, 2026). This is Adriana Oniță’s first book of poetry, and it gathers English-Romanian poems that travel across generations, homelands, ...  Show more

“Poetry is the attempt to understand fully what is real, what is present, what is imaginable, what is feelable, and how can I loosen the grip of what I already know to find some new, changed relationship,” the poet Jane Hirshfield tells me. Through poetry, she says, “I know so ...

Poetry reading 

Poetry reading 

Roses are red, violets are blue, has poetry ever been intimidating for you? For many people, this art form can feel unapproachable, but poet and educator Sarah Kay, suggests that people who don’t like poetry just maybe haven’t found a poem that really speaks to them. Sarah propos ...  Show more