Swanson started writing poetry when she was in her early 20s and wrote a book of poems, “Spirit Within,” which she ...

It is twilight, in the sense  that there is no Day or Night; only the fluttering of wings. Being kissed awake is tender as birth is confusing. There is no separation; only                 the ...

Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...

Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of ...

Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only inflame and prolong hostilities.

Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

In honor of the pollen that has mysteriously appeared on my car this morning, here are some poems related to spring, the ...

A Singapore court on Wednesday granted a stay of execution to a Malaysian man, just hours before he was set to be hanged for ...

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Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...