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1. Poet Mary Oliver Wrote Plainly and Affectingly of Love and Loss  The Cut
2. Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who found solace in nature, dies at 83  Washington Post
3. Mary Oliver, the poet who saw the wilderness in humanity  Grist
4. Beloved Poet Mary Oliver, Who Believed Poetry 'Mustn't Be Fancy,' Dies At 83  NPR
5. Farewell, Mary Oliver, a poet whose name you may not know, but whose words you most certainly do  Chicago Tribune
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On our Bookshelf: the power of love to change who we are and the world around us. The head of the Episcopal Church, the Most Reverend Michael Curry, ...

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It appears that there was more than just one love in William Shakespeare's life. Find out the truth behind his romantic past...

University of Alabama undergrad Alexus Cumbie has found a way to marry her two loves: poetry and politics. “I never perform anyone else's poetry, but I have ...

Poetry spot is part of a collaboration with two local poets to bring poetry closer to the center of our everyday lives. A note from the poet: This poem's *content* may ...

In the view of Fahad Bouzubar, people love to read about love, and they love it even more when their own emotions are represented. In his debut publication ...

John Kenney's just-released book "Love Poems for Married People" has recently been optioned by Ryan Reynolds' production company. The book offers quick ...

Let's talk about Brex, baby – or not. There are few (if any!) subjects guaranteed to kill the mood like Brexit: a long and drawn-out process involving crusty ...

Twitter astrologers the Astro Poets share their advice on how to help out mopey Capricorns, and how to stop yourself from sabotaging your relationships.

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If you're getting fed up of Brexit, you're not the only one. However, this writer has decided to add a sprinkle of 'Fifty Shades' to a poem about Brexit, and it's really ...

Nathan Earnshaw, 12, won a competition to be part of the Message from the Skies event involving some of Scotland's leading artists, designers, musicians and ...

Lately, I've been thinking a lot about Instagram as an artistic platform, especially with regards to poetry. I started thinking about it when it came up in conversation ...

Most nations like a good excuse for a booze-fuelled get-together and for Scots, January 25 provides one such occasion as they celebrate the birth of national ...

Tacoma Arts Commission announces the eighth annual Tacoma Poet Laureate competition, the winner of which will be named Tacoma Poet Laureate for ...

Adè​le Fontaine writes a poem to her husband every Sunday, a ritual that has helped Fontaine process her grief since he died.

After a lifetime in feted verse, nonagenarian bilingual poet Jayanta Mahapatra confesses that it's been a lone, painful journey, but it is still poetry that sustains ...

If you celebrate Christmas with family, then you might be feeling two conflicting emotions this morning: boundless joy, and the desperate desire to get away for a ...

Alagappa Rammohan has amassed enough books over the course of his life to fill a library. In his estimation, he has 10000 — everything from religious.

Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Ricardo Hernandez for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic ...

Tom Taylor, 77, known also as Thoss W. Taylor or the Poet Spiel in his capacity as an artist, suffers from vascular dementia. The progressive and incurable ...

Forget the chocolate and flowers. These love notes from kids are the best gift ever.

Katy Waldman reviews the poet Laura Sims's novel “Looker,” which is centered on a female voyeur, a figure who inspires pity and fear.

Note: This post and episode contain some NSFW *content* — specifically, stuff that is sexually explicit. Chris and Kim are a married couple living in the Merrimack ...

DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend and I have lived together off and on for three years. We met at a lesbian bar in Los Angeles, and it was love at first sight for me.

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With entire social media handles dedicated to the genre, today's epic stories of animal connections enjoy an easy ride to internet fame. But it was not Instagram ...

Grand Persian Music Concert, Jan. 18, 7 p.m., Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, $20-$30 (801-355-2787 or artsaltlake.org). “Cages,” Body Logic Dance ...

Tufts University Art Galleries' current spring semester Medford exhibition, which will open on Jan. 17 and close on April 14, offers a focused look at L.A. based ...

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This article touches on conversations in poetry and 31 modern poets you should follow today. This publication also features three brief interviews.

Bert Riggall's images kept a place and time alive — and are a gift to all of us.

WHITMORE LAKE, Mich. (PRWEB) January 07, 2019 -- When the late author Hosain Mosavat came to America from Iran, he started writing poetry. As he wrote ...

Dua Saleh's first musical recording was like the electronic-rap version of those towering wood structures they make at Burning Man Festival: It was online for 24 ...

The poet helped me to realize how little I knew about a life observed.

The poems by Sonnet Mondal are characterised by a strong meditative vein and offer unwavering faith in the sovereignty of love.

Drink to that.

It's January. Which means we can catch our breath, and look back on the past year. So we're continuing our custom of running the Best Of lists of locally ...

The piece, titled “Love Is Calling,” is one of 20 existing infinity mirror rooms created by legendary contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama.

Can reading make you happy? Apparently, yes. Anyone who has grown up reading books would agree. Author Ceridwen Dovey tackles the question in a ...

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Like ​The Atlantic? Subscribe to ​The Atlantic Daily​, our free weekday email newsletter. Dr. Sherman Hershfield woke up one morning and was surprised to ...

To thank his fans for watching Zero, Shah Rukh Khan, in the wee hours of Saturday, took to his Twitter account. In his early-morning tweet, SRK dedicated a ...

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 ...

Hit theatre show Love Letters From Blackpool is returning to Preston for a special performance for the city's disability community.

You have read 1 of 10 articles. Log In or Subscribe. Hoping to bring positivity into the world through his words, Jonathan Percy Macden has put together, ...

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are still very much together -- despite the fact she allegedly flaunted his embarrassing "sexts."

Daughter of the south global revolutionary, scholar, activist, and poet- --Dr. Angela Davis is black revolutionary magic manifest in the eyes of little black girls in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Books of collected song lyrics are now big business. Neil Tennant, Kate Bush and Florence Welch are among the latest offerings.

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.

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 ...

Sonja Yelich says she'll be returning to teaching part-time due to the shortage of teachers in New Zealand. The mother of pop star Lorde shared the news o.

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

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

How did NPR's “On Being” host Krista Tippet become the guru to “spiritual but not religious” seekerdom. This cult public-radio show is about beauty and poetry; ...

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.

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 ...

Harleen Sethi uploaded a photo from the success bash of Uri: The Surgical Strike, wherein she can be seen twinning with Vicky Kaushal, in black sweatshirts.

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 ...

The 2019 Falmouth Reads Together book selection is the classic novella The Little Prince. It's a tender tale of lonliness, love, and loss, in the form of a.

The Otherness these two poets perceive in their relationship with animals is the same Otherness reflected back at them as poets living in an age of Civil War in ...

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 ...

Despite the triumph of masculine violence over poetic sublimation in this harsh, prosaic world of disenchantment, I refuse to write the obituary of the music of a ...

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 ...

For the 100th birth anniversary of Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi in Mumbai, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wore a stunning white and golden suit and was seen ...

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 ...

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

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

An anthology of complex and powerful love poems by Pittsburgh-centric poets.

Tom spent his days as a clerk, two floors below ground level in the cellars of Lloyds Bank. He worked in the foreign-transactions department from 9:15 a.m. to ...

Grammy Award-winning Luciana Souza's new album "The Book of Longing" sets the works of famous poets, like Leonard Cohen and Emily Dickinson, to music.

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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 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 ...

Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things you had ...

Benjamin S. Grossberg, director of creative writing at the University of Hartford, writes poems about sex, death and love, and also about finding and leaving ...

When the most hated poet in Portland unmasked the most mysterious poetry star on Instagram, he revealed a lot more than a guy's name.

Mary Borden's passionate sonnet was addressed to a British soldier with whom she had an affair while running a field hospital at the battle of the Somme.

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

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 ...

Poet Megha Rao, who serendipitously got into spoken word talks about her love for the art and what poetry means to her. Megha's poetry collection on love is ...

Lots of performers say they suffer from stage fright, but Andrea Gibson really means it. The spoken-word poet sometimes has full-blown panic attacks onstage.

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 ...

New collections by Ada Limón, Kelly Forsythe and Katie Ford.

In recent years it has become increasingly clear that Michael Farrells previous status as a wunderkind of poetic play and Oulipo-ish experiments is evolving ...

Poet and translator whose work was inspired by the classical world.

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.

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

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Omid Safi's latest project was a labor of love, in the most literal sense. Safi lives in North Carolina, where he leads the Islamic Studies Center at Duke University.

Spectator competition winners: misguided love poems on Coffee House | You seemed to embrace the latest challenge – to supply seriously misguided love ...

The ruins that inspired pre-Islamic poets hold new meaning for today's Arabic writers, writes Paul Cooper.

Hilton Als on Smith, a storyteller who loves to explore how the body can respond to a lover, to family, and to history.

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