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

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

In our new column, Split Gums, Maren Logan reflects on the experience of coming of age and realizing you know way less about ...

As Cuba stands to become even more isolated, many Cubans continue to leave and those who stay remain cut off from family in the United States. Carlos Varela, a singer known as “The Poet of Havana,” ...

Her latest collection of poetry, Girl, organised in three parts ... Thus snake and woman, the inorganic and organic, pain and joy, the safety of the interior and the hostile worldly world are ...

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

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Pain, sorrow, fury, love and, in some cases, forgiveness, coursed through the courtroom at the Courthouse during last ...

SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco (AP) — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a ...

The Eagles blasting the Commanders was a reminder that pain is relative. For decades, unrequited love was the currency ... Well, the Lions didn’t get poetry last season in California, but ...