Writer and poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. Produced by Outer Voices and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel "The Anthologist" introduces us to poet Paul Chowder. In the second part of the show, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright brings us into poetry's painful craft.

From 16 century mystics to Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia Lorca - a wonderfully danceable sampler of Latin American and Spanish poems

Rhyme in Arabic, English, and French poetry.

Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language.

Two shows exploring the power of poetry — from our earliest childhood rhyming games to expressions that attempt to capture in words the spiritual connection with the divine.

This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen pal program for youth.

A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Epic poem about the Ali-Frazier fight (The Thriller in Manila) by James Tokley.

Youth Radio chronicles life in Oakland, California, where an alarming number of youth homicides has weighed heavily on the community.

Award winning and nationally acclaimed Native American students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word Club perform "Creation Poem".

Poet John Casteen hunts for deer and inspiration in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Andrei Codresu (ExquisiteCorpse.org) takes a trio of his poetry students from Louisiana State University and introduces them to the poets on the streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans.

“In Verse” is a multimedia reporting project combining poetry, photography and sound. This installment features poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally and producer Lu Olkowski as they document the lives of working mothers in Troy, New York.

"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison system.

Poetry Off the Shelf is a production of The Poetry Foundation. It features audio of contemporary poems read by poets and by actors, along with suggested intros and outros. The poems range from :30 to 2:30.

One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work.

Ten poets reflect on love in all its forms in THE CRUELEST MONTH, a National Poetry Month special featuring Billy Collins, Charles Simic, Debra Marquart, Randall Mann, Alberto Rios, Kay Ryan, Claudia Emerson, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, and Donald Hall.