By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

From the mythology of Gráinne and Diarmuid to the poetry of Yeats and the songs of Van the Man, Ireland has long celebrated ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

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

In Words for Love, the poems look at all the many manifestations of love and include verse by W. B. Yeats, Walt Whitman ... It’s down to Mo and his friends to win her deadly game (which she ...

Discover how a dandelion grows from a delicate fluffy seed into a bright yellow flower, enjoy beautiful poems which lift the ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

The other day, I found a conversation my boyfriend had with his friends on his phone, and let me just say, my heart was shattered into pieces, to say the least. I trusted him with so many personal ...

Two of our oldest friends of almost 50 years are secretly meeting up without us. Is it time to confront them? My wife and I value our friends and we gain pleasure from introducing them to other ...

Amna Nawaz spoke with Gorman about how the poem came to be and her new children’s book, “Girls on the Rise.” And before we go, we want to take some time for reflections about how people are ...

In his “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” W.H. Auden proclaimed, “Poetry makes nothing happen ... As a poet’s poet once put it, “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” ...