NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - When was the last time a subway poster got you choked up? For WCBS 880's Jane Tillman Irving, it was recently, when she saw the poem "Heaven" by Patrick Phillips. "Heaven" is ...

Since his début, in 2010, the poet Shane McCrae has published half a dozen major collections in rapid succession. Earlier this year, he published “The Gilded Auction Block”; his previous book, “In the ...

December, this month of yearly summings-up, is a good time to reflect on the human impulse to — well, to sum things up. Every day this December, someone somewhere will feel compelled to publish a ...

This is a true account beginning now. Here’s a birch basket, tens of feathers, none of which will ever belong again. This is like that, only more so. Once I was a little girl who tried to write it.

"My heart overflows with noble words; To the King I must speak the song I have made; My tongue as nimble as the pen of a scribe..." These words from the Book of Psalms are once again epitomized by ...

Phillips (The Ground), in his second collection, deals in illusions, highlighting the hidden wonders he finds within the world. In measured poems that echo conversations one might have in a museum, ...