Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

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

“She helped me to love poetry and myself. She’s always been an empowering legend and now forever more,” Winfrey continued. Giovanni was among 25 Black women Winfrey honored at her “Legends ...

At a time of growing anxiety, uncertainty and violence a revival and reassertion of one of humankind’s oldest forms of expression and social commentary — poetry — is desperately needed. Speaking for ...

In one of the most famous love poems of all time, Burns goes all out to express the wonder of love: It’s beautiful like a flower, it’s sweet like music, it’s deep as the sea. And Burns isn ...