The poet, whose newest poetry collection, Stag's Leap, was published by Knopf in September, recently read "The Worst Thing" on the PBS NewsHour.

The recent announcement that Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature has sparked conversations, like the one with Jeffrey Brown on PBS NewsHour, about what it means to be a writer living under a Communist government.

The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown recently spent some time with poet Natalie Diaz, author of the collection When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), who is working to preserve the rapidly disappearing Mojave language.

It may be Ocho de Mayo, but it's not too late to watch Naomi Shihab Nye read her poem "Cinco de Mayo" (from Transfer, published by BOA Editions last year) for PBS NewHour's Weekly Poem.

"You have speakers engaged with everything from the purple gonads of moon jellyfish to ancient Egyptian burial rights," says poet and molecular biologist Katherine Larson about her collection Radial Symmetry, winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets, in this recent profile on the PBS NewsHour.

During a recent appearance on the PBS NewsHour, National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty spoke about one of the great traditions of the holiday season: Handel's "Messiah."

Billy Collins, who was named the nation's poet laureate a few months before September 11, 2001, reads his poem "The Names" and talks with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown about the impact of 9/11.

PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown gives an overview of the Borders saga, the last chapter of which begins today when the bookstore chain enters liquidation and offers going-out-of-business sales at its remaining locations, and talks with Slate's Annie Lowrey about the demise of the forty-year-old company.

The author of The Tiger's Wife, published in March by Random House, recently sat down with PBS NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown to discuss her novel, which Publishers Weekly called "a brilliant debut."

Poet C. D. Wright was interviewed on the PBS NewsHour in 2011 about her book One With Others (Copper Canyon Press, 2010).