Today’s Poem of the Day, “Sea Fever” by John Masefield (1878–1967), has long been a staple of children’s anthologies. It’s the quintessence of the traditional “boy’s poem,” with its call to a life ...

It's national poetry month, and this year marks the 100th anniversary of Pablo Neruda's birth. NPR's Lynn Neary talks to translator Alastair Reid about a newly released collection of the Chilean ...

The first Salish Sea Poetry Festival opens tomorrow across Downtown Bellingham, with readings, food, visual arts and even ...

Though a wide expanse of ocean separates Plymouth in New England from Plymouth in England, the two communities are forever linked through the common bond of destiny. Nearly 400 years ago, the Pilgrims ...

We know Captain John Smith (1579–1631) as one of a generation of speculators and risk-takers: the soldiers-at-large, the privateers, the explorers, the planters of colonies in the late Tudor and early ...

We asked poet Craig Morgan Teicher to find a poem to illuminate a recent news event. He says the capsized boat in the Mediterranean Sea made him think of Derek Mahon's "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford." ...

During the War of 1812, only one ocean battle was witnessed by civilians on land. A six-year-old boy named Henry later immortalized the smoke, the thunder, and the two young captains who lost their ...

Since Nobel laureate and Caribbean poet and playwright Derek Walcott died Friday, remembrances have flooded in for the complicated but mighty writer, who captured the lush beauty of the Caribbean and ...

The Discovery Channel's popular television series, the "Deadliest Catch," featuring legendary sea captains and crews opilio crab fishing the treacherous Bering Sea from Dutch Harbor, Alaska now ...

During the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2002 Leo Hannewijk festival director Film by the Sea approached filmmaker and producer Digna Sinke with the idea of asking several film makers to ...