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 ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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 ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror ... type who experienced early emotional misattunements, continuing through her life, creating distress, depression, and ...

New Directions Publishing Essex HemphillThe Great Storyteller 1957-1995 As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a ...