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Poetry by Linda Gregerson: “Pity the part // we think we do on purpose.”

After a promising start as a published poet in the 1950s, Marie Ponsot put her career aside. She was a single mother in New York City, with seven children to ...

How do people deal with traumas and painful memories? For Gregory Orr, one of our most esteemed lyric poets, the answer is to embrace language and to grow ...

Campbell McGrath joins Kevin Young to discuss “Realism,” by Czeslaw Milosz, and his own poem “The Human Heart.” McGrath has published several poetry ...

Someone discovered a scrap of verse recently by the First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, sent in a letter in 1925 to a young man he'd fallen in love with, the ...

Justin Bieber honored the anniversary of his engagement to wife Hailey Baldwin with an Instagrammed picture of the two of them captioned, “My lips get jealous ...

"The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write". How do people deal with traumas and painful memories? For Gregory Orr, one of our most esteemed lyric poets, the ...

It's easy to be intimidated by poetry. Often it withholds as much as it gives, leaves obscure as much as it reveals. And there is so much of it. So many different ...

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Recently a much beloved co-worker had a loss in her family. It's become a ritual to read Sun Spots every morning in our classroom. We, as ...

"Roses are red, violets are pleasant, you have everything ... so you get no present!" wife Caroline joked.

“You can never publish my love,” Rogue Wave chants, in the song that the title of this series riffs on. Maybe that's true, and we can never quite account for our ...

Tana Mongeau and Jake Paul fueled wedding rumors a couple weeks ago when Jake captioned some photos “marriage today.” But it seems they took those ...

The album, Ode to Joy, is a defiantly hopeful collection of songs for dark days.

Chichester Cathedral's stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin's An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats ...

LIVING on the Isle of Wight proved the perfect inspiration for a new poetry book.

Naomi Shihab Nye, the new young people's poet laureate, encourages children to slow down and notice details – to see that every life is extraordinary.

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon's latest honour has come from the Poetry Society of America. The veteran performer was celebrated during a dinner benefit at the ...

LAKE COUNTY — Today in literary history: French novelist Christiane Rochefort was born on July 17, 1917 in Paris. A feminist writer who wrote bestselling, ...

Two new but stale collections offer joyless caricatures of passion.

WARRENSBURG — At first blush, life for Pat Shannon Leonard seems a forever heavenly day spent sipping tea in the perennial shade of huge ancient trees in ...

Part of the legend that surrounds the life and career of Leonard Cohen has to do with his contradictions. Cohen was a poet and novelist whose artistic success ...

Dennis Ford's eclectic Rydal garden draws visitors every year as part of the Daffodils at Rydal festival.

Just about every school kid ends up studying John Keats' 1819 poem “Ode On A Grecian Urn.” It's one of the best-known poems in literary history, and one of its.

These members of the U.S. Women's National Team are champions and readers. Find out how books influenced Rose Lavelle, Megan Rapinoe, and more.

The city's newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, ...

Workplace allegations against Badoo reflect an industry that all too often treats both its staff and users unfairly at best, says sex and relationships author Nichi ...

Charles Ghigna (pronounced “Geen-ya,” with a hard g), better known as the poet “Father Goose,” happily climbs the stairs to his wood-paneled office, which he ...

Nick Broomfield's remarkable documentary explores the love between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen.

Two unique and completely free events are happening this week, brought to you by some of the talented and creative people who call Rutland home.

Former Paradise resident John Wilson (@jwilson1812), who edited Books and Culture for 21 years, calls poet-novelist Marly Youmans “the best-kept secret ...

Jerry Foxhoven, the former director of the state's Department of Human Services, was removed days after he sent an email celebrating the rapper to 4300 ...

FITCHBURG — Last year Massachusetts artist and Revolving Museum founder Jerry Beck aimed to break the world record for largest paper airplane with a ...

I love it that my heavenly Father already has the perfect outfit for me. “For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of ...

Two and a half years ago, feeling existentially adrift about the future of the planet, I sent a letter to Wendell Berry, hoping he might have answers. Berry has ...

In a little more than a month, Michael Garrigan '19G achieved two major goals. In May, he graduated with his MA in English & Creative Writing, and in June, ...

Kim Rose Korkan, 62, passed away at home on Tuesday, July 9, surrounded by loved ones. For the past 12 years, she had been dealing with an aggressive ...

LaTonya Merritt performs at All Souls Episcopal Church's Prophetic Poetry Slam in Washington, D.C., on July 13, 2019. Photo: Egan Millard/ENS. [Episcopal ...

Love is a mean game, and cruelty in all its forms is a close relative. These vivid, odd, often marvelous poems create brand-new myths that probe unkindness, ...

Documentarian Nick Broomfield has tackled some beguiling and controversial subjects during his prolific career, be it Tinseltown escort-turned-entrepreneur ...

Cebu City, Philippines— A group in Cebu is bringing poetry up a notch. Almost Poets Society (APS), a group composed of poets, is taking poetry to the next level ...

By Sean Dietrich. Andy Griffith. He would definitely be near the top of my list. I can't think of many things better than Andy and Barney. Next would be barbecue.

COMING up with a few choice words written in a christening card is surprisingly tricky. For a start who do you actually address the card to, the new born child or ...

Meet This Magazine's new Poetry Editor, David Ly, and Fiction Editor, Jenny Ferguson. Jenny Ferguson is Métis, an activist, feminist, auntie, teacher, and ...

Robert Duncan, the influential San Francisco poet, once lamented that the esteemed William Carlos Williams wouldn't praise Duncan's own poetry, but “went ...

What does poetry mean to you?” This was the question I was posed upon my first encounter with the Ottawa High School poetry club.

Mlungisi feels inspired to impact positively on society and on his peers by using poetry as a tool.

Sophie Jo chats with Nathan about writing Disney parks poetry, her first experience in Phantom Manor, and how Disney makes her happy cry.

Pam Grout is the author of books, screenplays, a soap opera, magazine articles, and blogs. I first met her when I read her book "Living Big." It came from her own ...

How Michigan-commit Sierra Kersten went from a broken heart to the fullest heart with hard work and perspective.

J-Lyn Matjila explores her passion for writing and has released an emotional poetry book.

That face. You've seen her face, maybe a young ingénue doe-eyed Natalie Wood? More accurately delivering our nightly news as anchor for more than a ...

If you don't like wearing things on your hands or you've never been into jewelry, you may be wondering how you and your partner can symbolically celebrate ...

These left-wing ideologues see our nation as a force for evil,” Mr. Trump told a packed arena in Greenville, N.C., to a crowd that seemed to relish his comments.

Sculpture by Carmen Herrera, a retooled Belle & Sebastian and Leonard Cohen's real Marianne.

A PhD student has found a previously unpublished poem by Siegfried Sassoon during his research on director Glen Byam Shaw, to whom the short love poem ...

Valerie Dewey and then fiance Arnold kept their love alive using letters when they were divided by war.

Number 40 The Pines is a three-bed, 100sq m home in Wicklow in turnkey condition.

Ada and the Engine at the Artistic Home is a magical play about poetry and technology, tinged with tragedy. Ada Byron Lovelace was the daughter of the famous ...

"Harbor Bound" by Catherine Bailey and Ellen Shi is a picture book about ships sailing home during a day at sea told in poem style.

So dark the night!…I went with no one knowing upon a lover's quest –Ah, the sheer grace! – so blest, my eager heart with love aflame and glowing.” –John of the ...

Primera Fila, one of Spain's top theatre magazines, has released a video, called 'Love Goes Never Alone.' The video-poem brings together some of the most ...

Heaven received a beautiful new angel on June 15, 2019. Amie was a gentle soul who graced this earth and all who knew her with her kindness and her ability ...

Masego Nkuna puts pen to paper and releases first poetry book.

A fallen icon can never truly die. They are memorialised in the work of artists, the pens of history, and the lips of the people. As much as Nelson Mandela's own ...

A Myanmar love poem will remain on the national curriculum after the government's plans to scrap it over fears it promoted smoking sparked widespread public ...

Debby Ryan shares a heartbreaking tribute to her Jessie costar Cameron Boyce in a new Instagram post.

On a scale of one to 10, Ingrid Michaelson's new record Stranger Songs is an Eleven. The US singer-songwriter is best known for such intimate indie-pop ...

Country star, Luke Bryan is celebrating his 43rd birthday today (July 17). To celebrate, his wife Caroline gave him nothing but a hilariously, savage Instagram ...

Maya Hawke is breakout star of Stranger Things and offspring of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke - here's why we love her so much.

Daniels writes about aging, loss, and the circle of pain created by addiction.

Princess Haya has recently been the subject of great scrutiny and controversy as the royal family of UAE claims that her husband, the Sheikh.

Lorna Rasmussen to perform original work at MAC.

Not long ago, the new sculpture now on display at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum was a pile of chipped aluminum bars lying by the side of a ...

Patti Smith's 1978 unearthed and rare poem about The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is absolutely perfect.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): After analyzing unusual animal behavior, magnetic fluctuations, outbreaks of mayhem on Twitter, and the position of the moon, ...

Ali Liebegott's new book, The Summer of Dead Birds, is a collection of poems that form a memoir grappling with love and loss.

The Youtuber fired back, writing on Twitter "Wtf is this b?"

Salman Rushdie, who has been married four times, is dating a woman named Rachel Eliza Griffiths, an acclaimed poet.

Written from three perspectives which connect to provide a combined view of life's moments, Damian C's new poetry collection “Poems by Damian C: The Devil ...

False narratives about the South abound—to the benefit of oppressive lawmakers and the smug progressives who believe these stories to be wholly true.

New to the Parish: Dagogo Hart arrived from Nigeria in 2010.

John Milton wrote ten thousand lines of perfect iambic pentameter blank verse—while blind—blending Greco-Roman and Hebraic literature with the Biblical ...

She was the inspiration behind many of his songs, his muse and lifetime love, yet the relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen was often ...

Ben Okri was once asked how poetry could help us in troubled times. His answer was: “Poetry goes straight to the truth of things, with extraordinary gravity, with ...

An ode to a stretch that holds a lifetime's worth of memories—of cheap beer and monobloc chairs, of smug grins and hot chocolate, of poetry, first love, and ...

Held in the middle of Pride Week, literary event “Wilde About Sappho” took to Victoria City Hall to honour—via a powerful collection of queer literature—that 50 ...

Our love affair with love poetry's as old as time and showing no signs of fading, writes Rita de Brún. Time was when the Bible was considered the oldest book ...

In the latest Suelta relationship column, Yesika Salgado talks about dating men who cannot handle your success.

To promote its social app, Google Duo, the tech giant has resurfaced a Maya Angelou monologue recorded for Oprah Winfrey in 2010.

Smriti Irani recently took to the gram and shared a self-written soul touching poem with her fans. The poem has hit her fans right in the feels.

Tales of love and intimacy Kate Tempest is an English spoken-word performer, poet and writer whose dark, abstract lyrics and slam poet-esque delivery sets her ...

The Book Bus is one of our favourite places at the Ventnor Fringe Festival. We were interested to recently learn more about how the incredible range of books for ...

Review: Tim MacGabhann's debut is billed as a literary crime novel but lacks killer writing.

Mikey Mosher is a self-proclaimed "wife guy." While less Instagram-famous than the viral versions of partner-obsessed men before him, Mosher floods his ...

Director Carlos Reygadas comes close to autobiography in this shallow and self-indulgent story of a tortured extramarital fling.

Alice Casey presents 'Open Up' at Port Place London Drugs.

Poet Kwame Alexander's latest community poem is inspired by kids' definitions of love, touching on everything from ephemeral connections and puppy kisses to ...

A cherished Myanmar love poem will remain on the national curriculum after the government's plans to scrap it over fears it promoted smoking sparked ...

Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival Director Cristian Măcelaru wanted a historic theme for this 2019: the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage.

The first time I noticed that quite a lot of people on the Internet seemed to be begging celebrities to kill them was a couple of years ago. “Can lana del rey step on ...