Great Regulars: Gwendolyn Brooks' best-known work

tells the chilling life stories of seven young men in eight short lines.

She took her inspiration for "Seven at the Golden Shovel/The Pool Players" from a pool hall in her native Chicago.

from NPR: All Things Considered: April poetry series: Gwendolyn Brooks Captures Chicago 'Cool'

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I explained to him in my heart about all the decades
and the causes and the events, why I am now here
and my father's shop was burned there and he is buried here.

In another poem, "The Diameter of the Bomb," [Yehuda] Amichai describes how a single act of violence reverberates through history, encompassing the whole world and God with it.

from NPR: All Things Considered: April poetry series: Love, War and History: Israel's Yehuda Amichai

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All Things Considered concludes its April poetry series with Stafford's 1990 interview. Stafford described his relationship to the land and the ways in which the "lucky mistakes" of writing flow together, like a river's current, to guide the direction of a poem.

from NPR: All Things Considered: April poetry series: A Pacifist's Plainspoken Poetry

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