Poetry

1. Mary Oliver, poet and dog lover, has died  The Bark
2. Poet Mary Oliver Wrote Plainly and Affectingly of Love and Loss  The Cut
3. Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who found solace in nature, dies at 83  Washington Post
4. Mary Oliver, the poet who saw the wilderness in humanity  Grist
5. Beloved Poet Mary Oliver, Who Believed Poetry 'Mustn't Be Fancy,' Dies At 83  NPR
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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, ...

LOS ANGELES — A dimpled smile spreads across Katelyn Ohashi's face. It's the same one that lit up the internet in her 90-second gymnastics homage to classic ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Valentine's Day is referred to as the most romantic day of the year - but it began with the murder of a Christian martyr...

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.

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 ...

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.

Poet Hannah Sulliven wins the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for her intimate debut collection Three Poems.

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.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated that "unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. …" Some questioned ...

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 ...

Anxiety sucks, and the world is a trash fire. If you're having trouble keeping yourself level at a time when everyone seems stressed out, I have 15 poems to help ...

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

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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Bravo to letter writer William V. Saladrigas and his commentary on the Gillette ad. No doubt millions of men will agree with you.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Portrayed as a ordinary human being in new film All Is True, we question what it is that makes Shakespeare's work still so universal?

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 ...

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; ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ahead of Thursday's National Poetry Day, its founder recommends some of the best collections – whether you are after poems to inspire or filthy verse inspired ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

World Poetry Day is today, so what a perfect time to get stuck into some beautiful words. Love is a common theme in poetry. After all, it's an emotion that we all ...

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.

In this fast-moving technological world, lines of poetry can help people with mental illness.

OK, Valentine's Day is right around the corner, which means it's time to buy a card... and find a way to express how you really feel about your partner in that card.

If I'm going to be totally honest, when it comes to finding the perfect Valentine's Day gift, candy, flowers, and jewelry are seriously over-hyped. (I mean, I love ...

Eloise Turner, a retired Texarkana, Ark., School District teacher, recently shared her love of poetry with several community members in a presentation called.

Yvonne Zipter, poet and Portage Park resident, is spreading her love for poetry in a creative way. She has placed “poetry machines” in two neighborhood ...

Roses are red, Violets are blue. Write an ode to your dog—we've got prizes for you! We know you love your dog, and what better way to express that love than in ...

Ten people gathered around a conference table in a Jersey City co-working space on a recent Saturday morning, reading “The Neglected Trail,” a four-stanza ...

Nero, Stalin and Bin Laden were all fans, but what makes verse so appealing to these leaders? Benjamin Ramm explores the connection between ruthlessness ...

This the first monthly column by Full-Time lecturer and Ohio Poet Laureate Dave Lucas. The column will appear in other publications. “I, too, dislike it,” Marianne ...

Jess Green's poetry wasn't always political. But that changed when the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government came into power in 2010.

Chicago produces some of the most prolific and talented poets in the world. There is an urgency and purpose in every word and meaning lives in the pauses.

Hundreds joined Red Plastic Bag on the Soca Boat and the rocking got a spontaneous reaction from the Drill Hall crowd. (Photo by Reco Moore) ...

Poetry By Heart, was commissioned to test my instinct that learning poetry by heart is 'a good thing'. It turns out that it is, of course, but much more fundamentally ...

Yasmina Silva's spoken word poem is Poem of the Week at HeadStuff.org this week. Yasmina's poem is called Transatlantic Love. | HeadStuff.org.

Toward the end of Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail's new and almost unimaginably ambitious book The Five Quintets, we encounter a final, synthesizing vision, one ...

New love poetry by Wellington writer Hera Lindsay Bird. I want to get high my whole life with you i feel it in my leather hotpant pockets i feel it in my anime wind ...

In her new chapbook 'What is Not Beautiful,' poet Adeeba Shahid Talukder examines how love can be a life changing force in life. The winner of the 2017 ...

As fans try to restore the house where the great John Keats died, Sir Bob Geldof pays tribute to his favourite love poet.

Elsa Gidlow, who published America's first book of lesbian love poetry and the first openly lesbian autobiography, helped invent the stereotype of the mellow, ...

In a time when women's poetry centred around spirituality, she brought romantic lyricism to Kashmir. Prachi Jha | Onaiza DrabuUpdated May 23, 2018 10:35am.

I'm a writer, but not a performer — which is why, as I stood in front of at least 60 people at an open mic, I wondered, "Why the heck am I here? Did I really think it ...

From the ancient tale of Layla to the modern verse of Nizar Qabbani, poetry of undying love has always held a special place in the hearts of Arab people, and ...

New Zealand's outspoken 'Instapoet' star discusses sentimentality, sitcoms – and why humour is essential to her work.

Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has just had a brilliant idea. “Do you know what?” she says. “I'm going to go to Greggs and eat a vegan sausage ...

Children's books site member Safah has just discovered the fantastically varied, powerful and engaging world of written and performance poetry. Here are four ...

Instagram poet, Nayyirah Waheed touches people's hearts not only through her talented poems about love, but she also writes about feminism, racism and ...

Poetry can be an acquired taste for some people, a type of love-hate relationship. I'm sure we all can recall those times in English class when we had to come up ...

There is no shortage of great poetry books – poem collections as well as commentary and criticism – this season. Here's what we're reading.

The American poet Li-Young Lee's new book, his first in ten years, is titled “The Undressing,” suggesting a public performance of privacy, staged to prolong ...

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

Poetry is a form of expression that we all seem to love as young children. The rhythms in poetry are exciting to small children who love to dance and mov...

The poet's 'search for sense' may be over but the sense of his poems will long outlive him.

Put how you feel about your partner into words with the help from these poets. This year's Valentine's Day card will be the sweetest one yet.