That there are two sides to every story is cliché. That there are two stories to every marriage is almost science ...
By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.
Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...
Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.
Always have a person in your life with whom you can share all your secrets' For me, you were that person, dadi ...
To wake the dawn and call the morn,” wrote Sarojini Naidu, encapsulating India’s spirit in her evocative poetry.  Born on ...
Sackville-West’s renown as a gardener – and Virginia Woolf’s erstwhile lover – have eclipsed her reputation as a literary ...
New Directions Publishing Essex HemphillThe Great Storyteller 1957-1995 As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a ...
Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...
From the mythology of Gráinne and Diarmuid to the poetry of Yeats and the songs of Van the Man, Ireland has long celebrated ...
February the Fourteenth has been a day to give love to others in the name of Saint Valentine. But who is he? Is Valentine's a religious holiday…or Pagan all the way? Where did chocolate come in? Who’s ...
Bob Dylan considered love through every possible lens, but these ten tracks especially stand out as his most romantic and adoring contemplations on the feeling.