These cheeky little "Roses are red, violets are blue" poems are perfect for breaking the ice, making your bestie snort-laugh, or just brightening up a boring Tuesday at the office.

Violet flowers and lavender hues The violet is a recurring motif. Sappho used the flower in her romantic poetry, writing of “crowns of violets”.

The violet necklace is a lesbian accessory that has deep historical meaning that dates back to Sappho’s poems.

John J. Miller is joined by Jessica Hooten Wilson of Pepperdine University to discuss the poetry of Sappho.

A new poem by Kim Moore. By Kim Moore She seems to me to be a woman I should hate because she’s sitting close to you. I tell myself sternly that hating another woman is not a feminist thing to do but ...

Millennia after the death of Sappho, only 7 percent of her poetry is available to contemporary readers. Researchers are doggedly seeking more.

Rhinebeck was once the Violet Capital of the World in part of Dutchess County called the Violet Belt. But evolving fashion and industrialization changed that.