Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Raul Lopez named his Luar fall 2025 collection Pato. In Spanish, pato means duck, as in the bird, but in some parts of Latin ...

Research shows that AI companions can help lonely individuals, at least in the short term. A 2022 study found that ...

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 ...

In her debut novel 'Paradise Close,' out in paperback next month from Persea, the poet tells two intergenerational stories, ...

Inorganic and organic, pain and joy are reconciled in Padel’s poetry through a celebration of diversity, emotional, ...

What is it about love and pain that makes us want to write more than when we are bursting with joy? Why are all of my ...

In his new book Nalanda, breathtaking in its sweep and lyrical in its glory, the poet-diplomat Abhay K unearths with tender precision the most luminous jewel, nestled amid lush mango groves and ringed ...

From a Valentine's message for that budding new relationship to telling your long-time love that you're still swooning, we've ...

Dubbing himself Nguồn Thiêng, or “spiritual root,” he has taken to folk singing – a rarity of a choice in the polished and upbeat “Golden Music” of the Vietnamese American diaspora – to relay to his ...