As part of teacher appreciation month, Morning Edition asked NPR's audience to write a poem about teachers who have had an impact on their lives. We put out this call a week before the mass ...

The Newfoundland-based writer Don McKay has been publishing poems about the natural world since the '80s. This year, he was honoured with the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Some 60 years after she wrote those words, Ms. Atwood is to be presented with a Lifetime Recognition Award by the trustees of the Griffin Poetry Prize. It is another in a long history of honours ...