If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

With no family and no close friends, who does this letter writer with a terminal illness go to for company?

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

AND TO STAND FOR THEM AND TO SPEAK FOR THEM FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE SO THEY’RE ABLE TO RELATE TO IT AND FEEL LIKE THEY’RE NOT ALONE OUT THERE. YOU HEARD A BIT OF HER POEM TONIGHT. AMBER TOBEY ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

Children are taught that doctors are trustworthy healers, so there’s a special sense of betrayal when they inflict pain.

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

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023, is still with us (even though he’s dead).

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.