Menachem Rosensaft, the son of survivors, challenges the comforting messages of Judaism’s best-known collection of verse.

Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” – in fact, a quick Google search turns ...

A Washington City woman is spilling her soul onto typewritten pages and mascara-smeared canvases, turning poetry and “emo art ...

At the end of 2024 South African poet Ingrid de Kok published Unleaving, a significant collection of substantial new poems.

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

What is the rule about looking at women in public? As a red-blooded male, I would like to stare, but of course that’s rude ...

POETRY condemning violence against women around the world was projected onto Parliament and other buildings around London on the eve of MPs returning to work from their six-week-long summer break.

Kashiprasad Ghosh (1820s) to Basudhara Roy (2020s), Indian English poetry has walked a long glorious way; from uncertainty to confidence. We open Roy’s A Blur of a Woman and see contemporary ...

To all craftsmen and artists, carpenters and architects, to all of us who even knit the simplest sweater, or build birdhouses ...

Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...

Last Sunday’s Island newspaper had my article titled Reading and the Classics. I continue that trend of thought and mention women authors who we of my generation read with such delight. Maybe I need ...