Six months reading only authors who died by suicide reshaped my mind, habits, and relationship with books in unsettling ways.
"You came into my life when I wanted to end my life every day," the model wrote in a touching post on social media honoring ...
Poetry is not a magic trick; it is the radical act of turning a personal nightmare into something universally beautiful. At 80 years old, Hoshang Merchant, India’s first openly gay poetic voice does ...
Virginia’s Lt. Gov-elect Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.
Rooted in lived experience and guided by faith, here’s a debut poetry collection that unfolds as an intimate dialogue between the individual soul and the conscience ...
Last winter, when I found myself in that cold, dark place that comes after the spell of the holidays but before spring ...
Gustaakh Ishq,” directed by Vibhu Puri, is a slow-burn emotional story that, at its core, is multi-layered and carefully ...
A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.
The new book of poems by Ann Mirabile Lees, “We Are All Seatmates on the Spaceship Earth,” is an enchanting collection written since her first book appeared in 2012. This new book contains 62 poems in ...
A common myth during many plagues, but most specifically the bubonic plague, was that only the poor got sick and died. This classist ideology had people believing for centuries that the wealthy were ...
Amanda Gorman shared a powerful poem in memory of Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.
As Valentines Day 2026 is just around the corner, Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonnas story reminds us that love need not ...