Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and ...

When I picked up the phone to call Cruse — always Howie to me — the most important thing I knew was that he had known my ...

So begins a poem, titled “The Cowboy,” about a real-life folk hero of sorts: Ben Ellingson, the 5-year-old who helped find ...

After years of not painting, Nicky Santore picked up his brush to paint the story of Pip, part beast, bird, insect, and ...

In the late 1960s, one of the hippest places in Los Angeles was Venice, especially the area known simply as “The Canals.” ...

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

Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for ...

When Jordan mom Chelsie Knight was struggling with breastfeeding her first child, she found most breastfeeding resources were lacking. Google searches offered little more than stats and unreliable ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

In one of her poems, Huang wrote: "Why do you have a low voice, because you keep clean the city day after day; why do you ...

"All That We Ask of You Is To Always Be Happy," Durham poet Bridget Bell's debut collection, comes out on February 4.