Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Marginality, mass death—these are just a few of the reasons why the oeuvre of Essex Hemphill, who died of the virus in 1995, ...

Reminiscent of “Starting From San Francisco,” one of the first books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco is also where Victor Depta spent some of his early years and where this 2024 reprint of his ...

It does not happen regularly that authors devote parts of a novel to epistolary storytelling. It is a risky terrain, that too ...

Kalidasa, often hailed as the "Shakespeare of India," was a classical Sanskrit poet and playwright whose works continue to ...

By encouraging people to imagine beyond their own experience, reading poetry can help them see things from a different ...

By encouraging people to imagine beyond their own experience, reading poetry can serve as an exercise in seeing things from a ...

Who still reads poetry? In a digital age and in a time when the empirical has for the most part replaced the spiritual, ...

At the end of My Oxford Year, the classroom returns like a quiet refrain. New students settle in, books open, notebooks ready ...

This is a curious place for Spock to wake up, however, as the pair had never gotten engaged. Indeed, they recently announced ...

True love knows no distance. These five romantic poems capture the feelings of a heart in love, dreaming of a reunion despite ...

Meg Waite Clayton is the author of nine novels, including “The Race for Paris,” “The Last Train to London,” and “The ...