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Poet and professor Mattthew Zapruder writes about ways to look at poetry anew in his book "Why Poetry."

Here & Now's Robin Young gets the latest from NPR science correspondent Joe Palca about what to look for, and what unexpected things could happen.

When part of a Chinese street cratered, one unfortunate scooter rider failed to notice. We're fortunate he emerged unscathed — and fortunate, too, that his strange plunge was caught on camera.

After months of deliberation, a reluctant president is expected to increase the American military presence by about 4,000 troops after 16 years of war with no end in sight.

The singer-songwriter mostly recorded this album in a cabin in Sweden. You can hear that intensity and obsessiveness in his attractive, eccentric pieces, which sometimes sound like works-in-progress.

The crackdown on the star conductor's four-city American tour with the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela is seen as payback for his recent criticisms of the Maduro government.

Clemson, South Carolina, was one of the places across the U.S. located in the solar eclipse's path of totality.

As President Trump prepares to deliver an address Monday night on his strategy for the war in Afghanistan, NPR looks back on previous presidential addresses to the nation regarding this war.

From coast to coast, a total solar eclipse crossed the United States on Monday. Fourteen states were in the path of total darkness, while a partial eclipse was visible in other parts of the country.

A group of LGBT people in Arizona discuss the recent stances the Trump administration has taken related to sexual orientation and gender identity as part of our Kitchen Table Conversation series.