The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash’ by Alexander Clapp “There is a reason why Mafia bosses tend to work in ‘waste management,’” ...

I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop ...

The critic Adam Plunkett expertly teases out the many meanings of Frost’s poems in “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Blending biography and ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new collection of poems, "Doggerel," a meditation on ...

As a young girl, I couldn’t name it, but I was falling in love with, and collecting, words. I pasted poems and song lyrics ... things to have woven through a life. Rebecca Dotlich's books ...

Even though Brianna said many horrible things about the “Something In The Orange” singer, this did not stop women from flocking to the famed artist. After their breakup, there was speculation that ZB ...

For the rest of her life, hundreds of poems circle around the same mournful ... Dickinson never married, though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to ...

Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

The author of ‘Kalkatta Chronicles’ and ‘Kolkata Classics’ gives insight into her debut foray into Hindustani poetry ...

Born Parsi, Sufi of heart and Christian in suffering, Buddhist in his detachment, and Hindu in his sensuality, Hoshang Merchant’s life and poetry weave together ...

“The Physics of Love” in the TV series “Goblin” from the collection “Physics of Love 사랑의 물리학” by Kim In-yook ...

In the midst of turbulent times, it can be hard not to fixate on the troubles of the present moment. Here's how hope can ...