"Of nature, of love, of souls apart, a poet's words come from the heart." Although people sometimes laugh at poetry (and those who write it), many find it is a soothing way to express sentiments ...

“How it went with the women,” Martin Amis’s phrase for what most straight men are likely to contemplate in the evenings of their lives, would have made an ideal alternative subtitle for the 50-minute ...

An installation view of Wangechi Mutu’s “Black Soil Poems” at Galleria Borghese. Photo: Agostino Osio. Wangechi Mutu’s new exhibition at Galleria Borghese unfolds like a poem in the ...

A collection of prayer, poetry, and spiritual practice centering the Black interior world, from the New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh and creator of Black Liturgies "A true ...

C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof" is taken from her most recent book, "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in ...

It was only the other morning that my wife, happening to leaf again through “Here,” the most recent gathering of Wislawa Szymborska’s poems, remarked, looking at the cover photograph of the ...

"Of nature, of love, of souls apart, a poet's words come from the heart." Although people sometimes laugh at poetry (and those who write it), many find it is a soothing way to express sentiments ...

Until 1949, when Eliot met Valerie Fletcher, the secretary to whom he would be happily married from 1957 until his death in 1965, love went badly for the Nobel poet. He regarded his miserable 18-year ...