Iris Murdoch, the formidable Irish and British novelist and philosopher, died in 1999. Since then, the Murdoch industry has ...

Shirley Rickett’s Tales weaves memoir and poetry into an unflinching life story shaped by memory, art, and the questions that linger after growing up. This book is my attempt to give voice to the ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition? Think again.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without the commitment ...

Ada Limón, the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, will visit William & Mary as part of the College of Arts & Sciences Open Inquiry ...

Seth Brady Tucker’s latest collection of poetry, The Cruelty Virtues, is available now at his website (signed!), the publisher’s, or independent bookstores like Prairie Lights. The free-to-attend ...

Love languages may vary from one person to another, but it would be a challenge to find someone who wouldn’t enjoy and appreciate receiving love poems. This art form has captured our imagination since ...

At farmers’ markets on Oahu, a poem can become more than words on paper. It can become a keepsake, a love note or a way to ...

Here are five short game poems, all playable in a web browser, that explore themes of love, intimacy, longing and separation.

Although Rita Dove has won most of the honors available to an American poet — she was the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 1986 collection “Thomas and Beulah,” ...

That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London who wondered ...

Virginia’s Lt. Gov Ghazala Hashmi (D) holds a PhD in poetry and selected five poems for fellow Democrats that brought her comfort over the past year.