It takes a bit of licence with the literal meaning but it works: I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to ...

Karonhienhawe Nicholas had never tried her hand at creative writing before last year, but now that her first piece is ...

Revered Black queer poet and activist Essex Hemphill’s literary works have finally returned to print in a newly released ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on family, friendship and falling in love.

I wrote about Rupi Kaur — how her poetry is bad and I despise her success, et cetera. I thought that was all I had to say. But then, I was alerted to a poet. Her digital scent wrapped around my ...

A YORK teacher is celebrating the signing of a deal with a publishing house and the release of her first book of poems. Aimée Donnell ... Irish in me, but I love being out in nature, but I ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems ... find truly good poetry books.

In praise of the Persian Sufi poet, mystic, and philosopher, known for his epic poem The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr), Rumi writes: Attar has roamed through the seven cities of love ...

One of my favorite reads in 2024 was the anti-self-help book “Poe ... It’s a mood. “Love Hurts” has some of that energy with an assassin who writes angsty poetry, calls himself The Raven ...

Moments later, she kicks off the show with a poem titled ... is no way to live. “Hurt was here before we were,” she writes in “unhurt”; “someone you love will eventually disappoint ...