Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

More than a decade ago, Democratic candidate for governor Jonathan Kiper self-published a book of poetry filled with sexual ...

The Atlantic magazine introduced many now-classic works by writers including Longfellow, Whitman and Frost.

The surgeon informed Longfellow that Charley’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave ...

It's not often that "thinking inside the box," is lauded as a winning strategy. But for spoken word poet Henry Morray, it won Slamovision's 2025 international slam poetry competition.

While Urdu poetry thrives through gatherings, media, social media and living traditions, anglophone verse, caught between ...

The Publication of Kunjana Parashar’s They Gather Around Me, the Animals (in June 2025), is nothing less than a cultural ...

A Visit from St. Nicholas' is one of America's most beloved poems. But few can have read it carefully. If they had, our idea ...

It is, perhaps, the most famous editorial ever written. One that has been reprinted year in,, year out in newspapers around ...

Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

That’s the miracle of Bethlehem – that at a human level, the wonder is that the birth of the Christ-child ushered in ‘such ...

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully ...