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It's Poetry Month and NPR's Life Kit has a guide to writing and appreciating poetry.

Deluxe reissues of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland and The Beatles' self-titled "White Album" celebrate their 50th anniversaries, and reveal the remarkable creative abandon behind them.

Investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday. She is the first writer from Belarus to win the prize.

"Recitatif," written by Morrison in the early 1980s, follows the lives of two women from childhood to their contrasting fortunes as adults.

John T. Edge, a Southern foodways expert whose work has appeared in Gourmet, the Oxford American and Saveur, discusses a Montgomery, Ala., food tradition that has helped bring blacks and whites together. Read an excerpt from "The Welcome Table.

David Banks, an editor and producer of NPR's Web site, talks about a treasure trove of audio tapes that chronicle the correspondence between his father, a U-2 spy plane pilot in the Vietnam War, with his young wife and family at home in Arizona.

Dr. Danielle Ofri relies on an array of medical tools: stethoscopes, X-ray machines, thermometers. But above all, she uses her ears. In her new book, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue, Ofri says that learning to listen to patients is an integral part of her profession. NPR's Melissa Block spends a day with the doctor.

Commentator Joe Carter agrees with President Bush and his veto today of the bill for embryonic stem cell research. For Carter, it's a moral, religious and spiritual issue. Tuesday, we heard an opposing view from essayist Terry Smith.

Forty years ago this month, the Beatles began recording Rubber Soul. A new tribute CD features remakes of the landmark album's 14 tracks. Some of the artists weren't even born yet in 1965, when Rubber Soul came out.

Last year, commentator Ted Rose left his New York life for a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado Rockies. Now, he's trying to decide whether to stay out West or move back to the Big Apple.