The Story

Host Dick Gordon visits the home of Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty and finds piles of books, letters from other writers of her time, and a type writer.

Radio producer Sean Cole is a poet (and he knows what you think of poets). One night, drunk and stumbling along the Hudson River with his friend Malissa O’Donnell, he discovered a monument to two of his poetry heroes. See more photos here.

A profile of violinist and songwriter Andrew Bird from Jonathan Menjivar.

A poem by Sharon Olds capturing a daughter's trip home to a sick father.