Poetry, like most art, is subjective, and people’s tastes run as wide as the collections on offer. Whether young or old, well ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...

Here's a love poem that has just the right touch to sweep your partner off their feet. Remember, you have the freedom to tweak it as you like, even personalize it. In the vast universe, finding you ...

Tupac Shakur was born in Harlem in 1971 to two members of the Black Panther Party. Taking the name MC New York when he first ...

Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb.

“What was once a kind of erotic, playful love poem,” Professor Shapiro said ... s work found life in the years after his death. For Shakespeare scholars, it suggests that the sonnets had ...

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 as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

The pair have now shared what life has been like since leaving South Africa and have opened up on worries they would receive abuse and death threats ... there was still no love lost between ...

There was never a complaint from her, just unconditional love that showed up in her everyday ... The period leading up to my mother’s death was a slow unravelling of pain, beginning with a ...

Sometimes seen as the stuff of commencement addresses, his poems are hard to pin down—just like the man behind them.