"There is so much noise in our culture. So many frantic, angry, unreliable voices.... Poetry is an antidote to that."… 4 poets you need to read, from new poet laureate Tracy K. Smith Last week ...

New York City's seminal 1960s urban design battle will be turned into an opera, with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner poet Tracy K. Smith. Here's why that is not such a weird thing.