By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Trad Album” was all it said on the cover. “I was always browsing, and I would spend a lot of afternoons after lunch there,” Mullan says. “I knew that would be the ultimate find—a Nusrat unreleased ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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Claire said: "Friend’s for 30 years, thick and thin, fat and slim, boyfriends, breakups and babies. Second pic taken 25 years ago! I always love you my friend @ianhwatkins treasure your friends." ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... What her work shares with O’Hara’s, here, is a love of life and living, even in moments of poverty, crisis and pain. That, and an ability ...

love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city. Holland, who is a producer on the film as well as its star, said that Black actors often get used to playing ...

The list of famous fictonal couples runs ... right amount of malice to the iconic “I love you”/“I know,” Han and Leia’s love story was written in the stars. Many—if not most ...

At their best, poets can shine on the big day, capturing dreams and longings The tradition of the inaugural poem has been lopsided ... if the mightiest word is love?”, recasting the idea of ...