Always have a person in your life with whom you can share all your secrets' For me, you were that person, dadi ...

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

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

What you need to do when your "mirrored self" represents a major degradation from your inwardly imagined self.

The words of fisher poet Steve Schoonmaker, when put to the sounds of Jim Maloney’s music, create a sense of wonder about the intelligence and inclusiveness of nature.

Valentine's Day is a time for poetry, to speak of love and how romance and relationships change and deepen over time. Elders ...

Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson shares a poem she wrote sparked by a childhood memory — but she didn't let reality get in the way of meaning.

If you’re fed up with the crowds in Venice, head to Ravenna, with its dazzling mosaics and evocative museum dedicated to the ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

It has been 67 years since the Munich Air Disaster, a tragedy that claimed 23 lives, including eight Manchester United ...

She was widely known for “her discretion and gentle nature”. “This was a simple quiet and normal family life of a woman, a mother and her family, that was destroyed,” she says. Siobhan is now talking ...

Literacy is a gift we give our children. It’s reading a poem by, say, Joseph Bruchac and understanding not just the words, ...