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

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

Nothing New,” which the American poet wrote in 1918, is published for the first time in The New Yorker’s Anniversary Issue.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...

Their decision is expected over the next couple of weeks, before the end of the month.

Valentine’s Day is more than romance; it celebrates love in all forms. Its history blends ancient and Christian traditions, ...

A valentine shared by the Trump administration featured a poem centered on illegal immigration and deportations.

Let me unfold what the poem has come to mean to us when my wife of 48 years recites it, we who are now “old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire.” “Take down this book,” the ...

For a while, I actually felt kind of embarrassed by this. I thought that somehow I was on a lower intellectual level than everyone else and maybe I just didn’t have that depth. Later on, when I got ...

With a beautiful — truly splendiferous — new lobby at the Water Tower Water Works, Lookingglass Theatre has come back to life with a rich, circus-infused show designed to remind everyone of its ...

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their ...