When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante ...

Whenever I’m feeling down, I know I can find not only solace in poetry but true inspiration as well. No matter how sad I may be, I know a few Walt Whitman verses will remind me of how rare and ...

UNICEF celebrates World Poetry Day annually with themes like 'environment' and 'Standing on the shoulders of giants'. Poetry ...

This story is about mistakes. Mistakes made by all those who turn their ears away from the warnings of others and thus suffer the consequences. I was 16. It was a year marked by luck and regret.

If I were a high school English teacher, one assignment of mine would be to select a poem, from a mini-anthology I would assemble representing a range of diverse forms and traditions, and to ...

I Hate Parties is a collection of 50 poems on Jes Battis' experiences of being queer, autistic and nonbinary. Focusing on the ...

Poetry. Paris. A variety of mystery/crime novels. We’ve got it all today. “Stars Unseen”: by Greg Watson (Holy Cow! Press, $16.95) It couldn’t have been much, whatever/could be tossed into two plastic ...

The West Wing' creator Aaron Sorkin visited the White House to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary — and it has inspired ...

In life we migrate. You leave one relationship for another,” says prize-winning poet Ajibola Tolase. His debut collection, ...

“You’re around the people that are feeling the grief, feeling proud or sad — what it’s all about that day ... At ground zero, ...