The rare handwritten copy of "Sonnet 116" features several additional lines, which may have been an attempt to insert British ...

Once, poetry was ink spilling spontaneously and consciously onto parchment, then wrapped in the folds of intimacy, passed ...

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

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

What makes a good self-help book? The excellent book mentioned here is Philippa Perry’s The Book You Want Everyone You Love to Read. Rebecca Watson’s column also contains mention of Cate Blanchett’s ...

If you make a list of love poems, you’re obliged to include a Shakespearean sonnet, so I’ll start with a lesser known one, Sonnet 106. In the poem, the bard compares the beauty of his lover to ...

Dickinson never married, though she fell in love with a number of unavailable men and women. This poem seems to point to her relationship with the Rev. Charles Wadsworth, a married Presbyterian ...

For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

By Philippa Tracy Love After Love is also the title of a poem by Nobel Prize-winning writer Derek Walcott. It is a poem about ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Supreme Court hearing in a case against Congress MP and poet Imran Pratapgarhi for sharing a song witnessed light-hearted ...