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Marcus Jackson's collection “Pardon My Heart” celebrates the way deep emotion unfogs and energizes the experience of living.

Here's a little love poem for you, by Ory Bernstein, who is responsible for some of the loveliest love poetry written in Hebrew. It's from A One and Only Love, ...

ZIMBABWE Media Commission chief executive Tafataona Mahoso has rekindled his love for poetry with a collection that touches on a raft of issues, including ...

A love story told in letters from two brilliant but damaged poets seems an unlikely topic for an engaging, comic and tragic play. Yet so it is, with Sarah Ruhl's ...

Songs of Love, Eroticism and Spirituality: a special pre-Yiddish New York program featuring Daniel Kahn and Yeva Lapsker. A special program of music, poetry ...

When Claudia Cortese took to Twitter to accuse another writer of stealing her work, she didn't mince words. In a thread published December 7, Cortese called ...

In today's Poet's Corner, Ben Adams completes two months of South Australian-themed poems with these musings on impressions visions.

AMESBURY — Pam Fenner has had a long, ongoing relationship with a man she never met — and so has much of the city.

In this digital and divided society, it can often seem that language is used primarily to deliver criticism and express rage. But poet Ada Limón shares her humble ...

Addison Bowman, 11, marveled at the tiny new life in her arms, holding him gently as she rocked him to sleep.

The writer Georgi Gospodinov recently met with students from Sofia high schools in the Sofia City Art Gallery. He told them about his work, the literature and the ...

The first collection by National Slam Poetry winner Melissa Lozada-Oliva of Newton is “Peluda.''

A couple of weeks ago at an interfaith *service* in the chapel of Beverly Hospital, I heard a beautiful poem by artist/poet Jan Richardson. It is called “Blessed Are ...

Kimi Raikkonen has published a book of poems and much like his speech in person, they are short and to the point. Raikkonen's book called 'Winnow Your ...

If Graves is not known as a poet of the Great War, it's his own fault. His best work of the period has resurfaced only posthumously.

A little before 7 p.m. on a Monday, I escaped the December cold into the Iron Post to, of course, hear some poetry. The second Monday of each month, Iron Post ...

I grew up with the idea that being a poet is for truly exceptional people, while anyone can have a go at prose. Maybe it was the fault of my school, which instilled ...

Poetry came alive at Bret Harte and Calaveras high schools during the first Poetry Out Loud competitions.

In “Evolution,” Eileen Myles makes us reconsider the nature of experience and imagination.

This project represents the first 'anthology' of LGBT writing on this island.

St. John of the Cross has been nicknamed “the most mystical of all poets, and the most poetic of all mystics.” His poetry is recognized as one of the greatest ...

Poetry is having a renaissance thanks to a generation of young, accessible writers breathing new life into the literary form via Instagram.

It's impossible not to cheer for the poet's third collection, with her reflections on female bodies and violence feeling exceptionally timely.

Florida has long been one of the most intriguing of the 50 states. From election drama to news of the weird, the state has been the source of a rich variety of ...

Duncan Cromar​ takes a notepad with him wherever he goes, he never knows when inspiration for a poem will strike. The 85-year-old lives at Summerset in the ...

The Patch,” his seventh collection, probes landscapes from New Jersey to Alaska and profiles a vast cast of characters, from Joan Baez to Thomas Wolfe.

Let's talk about books because, as usual, the past year has been an amazing one for books by black writers. The only problem is narrowing a list to under 30 ...

Jillian Weise is comfortable with words. She's comfortable with writing them, accepting them, and rejecting them. Some words she uses to describe herself: ...

You know a poem is good when your body moves with it — when your foot taps along to the beat of each line break, each new stanza. When the poem is a ...

Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that engages students to write, helps them improve and connects them with authentic audiences in ...

Earlier this month, anyone walking past the corner of Olive and Seventh in the downtown Historic Core may have noticed a new mural along the lengthy ...

Love poems for her from the heart may be needed for you as a birthday present or a cute message for her in the morning. Some men love reading romantic ...

Larry Foss has a long history in the area, and has a book out in spring 2019.

All week this week we present the 20 best books of the year. Today: the 20 best collections of poetry. Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart ...

The holidays are a great time to curl up with a book and get into a really juicy story. My gift book this year is Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and ...

The 10 winning reviews below from Our Fourth Annual Student Review Contest critique subjects ranging from Lil Pump's self-titled album and Amelia Gray's ...

Happy Thanksgiving! Earlier in November, we asked our readers and listeners to share what about America they are most thankful for. More than a thousand ...

Fahmida Riaz, who passed away on November 21, informed the reader in her first collection of poetry, Patthar ki Zuban (The Language of Stones), that she ...

"Drink what you like" is a popular axiom in the wine biz, but what if you don't know what you like? Knowing what you don't like can be just as helpful.

In these four deeply political, deeply personal books, poets grapple with some hot-button issues of the day.

The joy that derives from reading Wendell Berry's fiction is not just a consequence of his literary craft, but of his theistically charged cosmology.

Poetic inspiration could strike Ted Blodgett at any time. While he was sitting at a concert, for instance, or in the bathtub. He would then have to get up and ...

A THOUSAND YEARS after completing the world's first great psychological novel, “The Tale of Genji”, its author, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, returned to Japan.

TO celebrate the Year of Young People, every week in 2018 The National is giving a platform to a different young Scot. This week, 19-year-old…

Future has found in trap music the perfect medium to be the sinner who has accepted that he will sin again, and we can all relate.

Emerging Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Reisz hones his film craftsmanship in an idiosyncratic sophomore feature.

As a book of the singer-songwriter's lyrics is released, the Cloud Atlas author reflects on the songs that have been the soundtrack to his life and work.

The British playwright and performer on podcast poetry, Maya Angelou's essays and the enduring appeal of Bob Marley's Concrete Jungle.

There was something in the air at the Eaton Hotel on Wednesday night. You could call it love, though for whom, we're still not quite sure. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.

Hi Brian, welcome to VENTS! How have you been? Thanks for having me and the rest of the Interplanetary Acoustic team on VENTS! I live in Orlando, along with ...

J. Michael Martinez's “Museum of the Americas” takes on the white gaze, colonial trauma and Mexican migration.

Ian Frazier on the year 2018: “In many ways last year was ghastly, / With so much going downhill fastly, / But let's assume a hopeful mien / Pertaining to ...

Love — intimate, familial and fraternal — infuses director Barry Jenkins' ravishing adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel about a battered romance that ...

The literary works of two local scholars are being recognized on an international platform. “Only 25 people in the entire world get the honor to be published in ...

The guys behind the voices of Solid and Liquid Snake from the Metal Gear series, Cam Clarke and David Hayter, have released a Christmas-themed poem.

We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.

The Book Review's poetry columnist, David Orr, picks 10 collections worth your attention.

With actor Jason Momoa putting his problematic interpretation of haka on the world stage during the press tour for Aquaman, Tina Ngata revisits some of the ...

“Faith, Hope, and Love Remain: Among the Virtuous of Virtues (Poems)” from Christian Faith Publishing author Norman Hicks III is a captivating collection of ...

Alfie Coleiro, 12, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, received messages on an app mocking him for his ginger hair and telling him to kill himself, but he's determined ...

It's hard to overstate the breakthrough K-pop albums have had on American charts this year, where the presence of Korean artists on the Billboard charts has ...

A poet struggles for words during a marriage proposal, leading to the question: Is poetry really better at capturing our feelings than plain old prose? Tell us in the ...

A collection of Pet Shop Boys lyrics shows off their singer's erudition and wit.

From celebrity-penned tales to *fresh* interpretations of the classics, here is our pick of the best for hungry readers from tots to teens.

This week in the life of Seth Rudetsky, Seth shares stories from Sutton Foster, Galt MacDermot, and how Grey Gardens' "Another Winter in a Summer Town" ...

They say love is light. I think they do. I'm not really sure. I might have heard that in a Subaru commercial. The point is that I see your light right now. And I wish I ...

There are plenty of other books by Black women -- fiction and non-fiction -- that really made a splash this year.

Check out the Christmas English poems videos with lyrics that would be perfect for Sunday School, a church *service* or carol concerts. Christmas 2018 Poems ...

After the most-wanted criminals were shot to death in May 1934, Bonnie's grief-stricken mother had had enough and demanded Bonnie be buried separately.

After the beloved poet caught a chill in December 1891, The Times kept a literary bedside vigil until his death on March 26, 1892.

A hit documentary offering an inside glimpse into Sunderland AFC and its fanbase could spur a Wearside singer-songwriter to a Christmas number one.

There's a pleasingly defiant comment by Neil Tennant towards the end of his handpicked selection of Pet Shop Boys lyrics. His footnote to the 2011 song “Your ...

Race relations. The opioid epidemic. The American prison system. These are just a few of the subjects that gifted reporters, memoirists and novelists — among ...

Writer Dale Bailey thinks we're drawn to apocalyptic stories because personal tragedies can feel like the end of the world.

The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, ...

A baby monkey with a knack for detective work, a mysterious green creature that takes up residence in an Australian farmhouse, and a 9-year-old stuck in a ...

Michelangelo was quite a talented fellow! I mean, the Pietà! The statue of David! The Sistine Chapel! The acclaimed sculptor, artist and architect was considered ...

Today, the students are learning about rapper Kendrick Lamar. They're working on a project comparing him to Phillis Wheatley, the 19th-century poet and slave ...

Book Club: Sana Uqba's collection of striking poems returns humanity to the thousands of Yemenis who became nothing but a death toll, writes Diana Alghoul.

Secretary Digital Innovations and Diaspora Communications Dennis Itumbi wrote an emotional poem to embattled Citizen TV journalist Jacque Maribe for her ...

The poetry as we know now has undergone significant evolution around the globe and has never failed to mesmerise our literary or artistic faculty. If you're really ...

Vinita Agrawal's fourth book of poems, Two Full Moons is a constellation of moments that are hauntingly visceral one second and deeply intimate in the very ...

Wesley McNair recalls Donald Hall, who was first a mentor and later a decadeslong friend.

A Khawaja Fareed Saraiki Literary Conference was organized by World Saraiki Congress in collaboration with Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) here on Tuesday ...

Here are four of the latest books that were recently published and are already favorites, from Helen Schulman's Come With Me to Yukiko Motoya's The ...

Despite rain, dozens of fans assembled on Sunday (Dec. 16) in New York City's Madison Square Park to hold a memorial *service* in commemoration of Kim ...

The second 'Poetry for people who hate poetry' column from Ohio's poet laureate. By Dave Lucas, Ohio's poet laureate. This is a love story. This story led me ...

Fumbling for words of love? Let the great poets speak your heart with these timeless and beautiful love poems.

Back in January, in honor of Valentine's Day, Morning Edition announced a love poem request line: Send us your memories of love and relationships, and ...

An early morning call too early for normal announcements. But then what is more normal than death? How can this be when life-signs are everywhere? A heron ...

The death of Donald Hall comes at a moment when his poetry feels newly relevant. Hall's hospitable poems, which approach difficult ideas in the idioms of ...

National Poetry Day was launched in 1994 with the aim of inspiring people to enjoy, discover and share poems. This year's event takes takes on October 4, with ...

Our understanding of the Great War has been shaped by its poets. As Kevin Childs explains, their passions were complex, desperate and tragic; yet their words ...

Herald-Mail Media is seeking submissions for the sixth annual Love Poetry Contest.Poems should not exceed 32 lines.They must be emailed, typed or legibly ...

A delicate act is learning the secrets of love. The pen slips in scribing the word of error ~ Mirza Abdul Qadir Bedil (translator, Musharraf Ali Farooqi). Love poetry ...

It's all in my head, the morning news, mourning cities and synagogues. I sit here muttering until my mouth goes dry, fingers cramp around the pen. Sorrow is ...

A Tacita Dean triple whammy, Picasso's banner year, a shabby swimming pool and Glasgow queered up by Tai Shani.

In his latest collection, the poet Terrance Hayes finds common ground with the many threats to our democracy.

It can be hard to know exactly what to say to someone you care about but, thankfully, the great poets have written plenty of beautiful lines about love and here ...

I really don't care for romantic comedies. I realize they're supposed to totally be my jam — or so advertisers keep telling me — but I'm just not interested.