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

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

All Natalia has for Valentine's Day is the grave of her husband, Vassyl, a Ukrainian soldier killed at the front and now ...

“The churning, burning world needs poets,” Wharton said. “Poets express the human experience in lyrical words. Metaphor in ...

Imagine a piece of bread,” says Elizabeth McQueen, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis working on the Mellon ...

Braving the frigid wind tunnels in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, Feb. 1, participants heading to this annual celebration at ...

Sophie Mackintosh's dark fable, The Water Cure, explores toxic masculinity and female relationships in a modern fairy tale.

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

Heart health is important all year round and can be protected by choosing an organic diet, as supported by scientific studies ...

Good food: Cut cheese into little cubes, strawberries into little hearts by slicing them thick using a knife/ heart-shaped ...

Alton Brown, post TV, has released his first book of essays and is about to embark on his fourth live culinary variety show tour. We talk to Alton about life at age 62.

There’s the Maine Grain loaf, a hearty bread that tastes like the state itself – rugged, wholesome, and utterly delicious. It ...