Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

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

On Valentine’s Day, four classical dancers — Navia Natarajan, N. Srikanth, Divya Devaguptapu and Amrita Lahiri write about ...

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

In her poem "The Mirror," Sylvia Plath portrays the complexity of the struggle of the imposter, the struggle to be oneself.

Sir, why did you remove the scenes of shooting… the violence?” Did that have to do with the budget?” It was a young girl’s voice from the audience and “Sir” was Arden Rod Condez, the writer of the ...

Reclaiming the art of writing love letters – on the antique technology of paper – is a small act of defiance, a safeguarding ...

He is beholding his earlier self ... love. We’re looking at a family portrait. It isn’t a selfie. Someone is behind the camera, a person whose presence quietly suffuses the poem.