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

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

May this February 14th be filled with love and romance. Share these poems with your soulmate and let them know how much they ...

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

Over the course of nearly two centuries, the American jeweller has become synonymous with romance and engagements. Read more ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

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

Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...

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 ...

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

“I love their improvised singing together ... have prompted titles of Padel’s earlier poetry in Darwin: A Life in Poems. “He Reads that the Membrane in a Goldfinch Egg is Proof of ...