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

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

Barney Saltzberg’s many picture books for children include “Arlo Needs Glasses,” about his giant goldendoodle who couldn’t ...

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Join us as we celebrate with 80 couples taking part in a Valentine's Day event hosted by the BBC at Coventry Cathedral.

But there is a great consolation in being loved distinctly. And this love extends to the world around us: You may know the ...

In 1997, for example, Vivian Gornick wrote that love was no longer the primary narrative conflict of contemporary literature.

The spirit of Valentine’s Day, like February itself, is best kept short and sweet. On the occasion of a notoriously ...