Stone's poems reframe the search for meaning by addressing the self-care and self-perfection complex. Because even though it's natural to want to "fix" our lives — sometimes obsessing over our ...

India's Taj Mahal has been called a poem in stone, a moon-white dream, a tear on the face of humanity. Susan Stamberg visits the world-famous crown palace, built 350 years ago.

This poem, one of a series written from the point of view of a stone, considers how a poet might metabolize and make use of the past. Poem selected by Matthew Zapruder.

In the stone of the Pietà we see Jesus disfigured. He is rough cut and unpolished. He is the people of our world. He is each one of us. Like us, these sculpted figures are unfinished.

It could be the New World's first poem, as well as its earliest example of writing of any kind. A stone discovered in Veracruz, Mexico, has the earliest form oftext in the Americas, according to ...